shǔ

bright

Components
日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

sun

署 sound component

  Sound component

shǔ

  

public office

Evolution

曙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
曙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shǔ

bright, light of rising sun; daybreak; dawn; the dawn of a new epoch (metaphor); Taiwan pr. [shù]

Most common words with 曙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

曙光

dawn

dawn

海曙区

Haishu district of Ningbo city 寧波市|宁波市[Níng​bō​shì], Zhejiang

海曙

Haishu district of Ningbo city 寧波市|宁波市[Níng​bō​shì], Zhejiang

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3385th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+66D9

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“曙,曉也。从日,署聲。”


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