mù
evening
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 莫 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 暮
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
evening | ||
to yearn for sth day and night (idiom) | ||
twilight | ||
indecisive | ||
dusk |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2768th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+66AE |
Shuowen | “莫，日且冥也。从日在茻中。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
