hūn
twilight
Depicts the sun (日) down low (氐) during twilight.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m̥ˤu[n] | xwon | hūn | dusk, dark |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 18.1003% of movies
1537th most common character in movies
1561st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+660F |
Shuowen | “昏,日冥也。从日,氐省。氐者,下也。一曰民聲。” |
Sources
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