shài

be in sunshine

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

西 simplified component

西  Simplified component

  

west

Shorthand for the phonetic component in the traditional character .

Evolution

晒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
晒 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
晒 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

 

shài

variant of |[shài]

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shài

dry in sun, expose to sun; (of the sun) to shine on; to bask in (the sunshine); to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun; (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share"); (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to

Most common words with 晒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

(of the sun) to shine on

晒太阳

to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it)

防晒霜

suntan lotion

晒干

to dry in the sun

暴晒

(of the sun) to scorch

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 6.5353% of movies

2270th most common character in movies

2630th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+6652


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