yè
night
Phonosemantic compound. 夕 represents the meaning and 亦 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]Ak-s | yaeH | yè | night |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 59.3144% of movies
664th most common character in movies
665th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+591C |
Shuowen | “夜,舍也。天下休舍也。从夕,亦省聲。” |
Sources
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