xù
rising sun
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 九 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 旭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
dawn | ||
the rising sun | ||
Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書|草书 | ||
Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[WùxūLiùjūnzi] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.3204% of movies
3257th most common character in movies
2846th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+65ED |
Shuowen | “旭,日旦出皃。从日,九聲。若勖。一曰明也。” |
Sources
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