Chinese Character Wiki

晦

huì

dark

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 每 represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

每 sound component

每  Sound component

měi

  

every

Evolution

晦 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
晦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
晦 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
晦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

晦  

huì

dark, unclear, obscure; night; last day of a lunar month; dark

Most common words with 晦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

晦气

bad luck

隐晦

vague

晦涩

cryptic

晦

dark

晦暗

dark and gloomy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥ˤək-s

xwojH

huì

last day of a moon; dark


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3075th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6666

Shuowen

“晦，月盡也。从日，每聲。”


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