xīn

dawn

Components
日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

sun

斤 sound component

  Sound component

jīn

  

axe

Evolution

昕 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
昕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
昕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xīn

dawn; early morning; day

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰər

xj+n

xīn

dawn


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4750th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6615

Shuowen

“昕,旦明,日將出也。从日,斤聲。”


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