曬 - Dong Chinese dictionary

shài

be in sunshine

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

Components

日 Meaning component

rì

sun

麗 Sound component

lì, lí

beautiful

曬 and 麗 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.曬 /*sre-s/
麗 /*[r]ˤe-s/

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

晒 (曬)

shài

dry in sun, expose to sun; (of the sun) to shine on; to bask in (the sunshine); to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun; (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share"); (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to

Most common words with 曬