漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
夕: evening
JLPT N43 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
3 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
セキseki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 一朝一夕いっちょういっせきin a brief space of time
ゆうyuu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 夕方ゆうがたevening
- 夕食ゆうしょくdinner
- 夕日ゆうひthe evening sun
- 夕刊ゆうかんevening paper
- 夕暮れゆうぐれtwilight
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Moon crescent.
Source: Wiktionary, 夕 (rev. 92200257), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“As the sun sets... Imagine the soft, orange glow of twilight as the first sliver of the moon appears.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xī
Same form: 夕 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 夕 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 夕 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xī most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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