夕
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(bound form) sunset; dusk; (bound form) evening; night; Taiwan pr. [xi4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 夕 itself
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 夕
- Common rank
- #1,777
- Unicode
- U+5915
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 夕 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A crescent moon
Components 勹 丶
How to remember it
evening · Heisig RSH #115
moon
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 夕
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宾夕法尼亚大学 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| 夕阳西下 | the sun sets in the west (idiom) | |
| 天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福 | fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); … | |
| 宾夕法尼亚州 | Pennsylvania | |
| 一朝一夕 | lit. one morning and one evening (idiom); fig. in a short period of time; overnight | |
| 新年前夕 | New Year's eve | |
| 万圣节前夕 | All Saints' Eve; Halloween | |
| 夕阳产业 | sunset industry; declining industry | |
| 朝不保夕 | at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state; imminent crisis; living… | |
| 花朝月夕 | a beautiful day; cf Birthday of the Flowers on lunar 15th February and Mid-autumn Festival… | |
| 宾夕法尼亚 | Pennsylvania | |
| 一夕数惊 | (lit.) one scare after another in a single night (idiom); (fig.) to live in fear | |
| 朝夕相处 | to spend all one's time together (idiom) | |
| 朝过夕改 | to correct in the evening a fault of the morning (idiom); to quickly amend one's ways | |
| 夕发朝至 | to depart in the evening and arrive the next morning; overnight (train) | |
| 朝令夕改 | to make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy (idiom) | |
| 小除夕 | the day before New Year's Eve | |
| 朝闻夕改 | lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening; to correct an error very quickly (id… | |
| 一夕 | overnight; instantly; very quickly | |
| 七夕节 | Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month; girls' festi… |
Sound family
These characters use 夕 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夕 sound part | evening, night, dusk; slanted | |
| 矽 | silicon |