Chinese Character Wiki
昃

zè

afternoon

Depicts the sun (日) slanting towards the west casting a tilted shadow of a person. The component depicting the tilted shadow was later replaced by the phonetic component 仄.

Components
日 iconic component

日  Iconic component

rì

  

sun

仄 sound component

仄  Sound component

zè

  

slanting

Originally depicted a tilted shadow of a person. Later rewritten into phonetic component 仄.

Evolution

昃 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
昃 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
昃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
昃 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
昃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

昃  

zè

afternoon; the sun in the afternoon sky; to decline; decline

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]rək

tsrik

zè

sun slanting to west


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6273rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6603

Shuowen

“，日在西方時，側也。从日，仄聲。《易》曰：‘日之離。’”


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