hūn

dusk

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

民 sound component

  Sound component

mín

  

people

Evolution

昬 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
昬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
昬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hūn

dusk, dark confused; stupid

() 

hūn

old variant of [hūn]

Most common words with 昬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

昏迷

stupor

twilight

黄昏

dusk

昏倒

to faint

昏暗

dusky

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 18.1003% of movies

1537th most common character in movies

1561st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+662C

Shuowen

“昏,日冥也。从日,氐省。氐者,下也。一曰民聲。”


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