chén
early morning
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 辰 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 晨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
in the wee hours | ||
early morning | ||
dawn | ||
early morning | ||
morning newspaper |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ər | dzyin | chén | early |
*sə-[d]ər | zyin | chén | part of Scorpio; morning |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 22.7775% of movies
1463rd most common character in movies
1388th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+6668 |
Shuowen | “曟，房星，為民田時者。从晶，辰聲。晨，曟或省。” |
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