夙
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morning; early; long-held; long-cherished
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 夕 +3
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 夙
- Common rank
- #3,076
- Unicode
- U+5919
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Formation & memory
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Words with 夙
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夙日 | at ordinary times | |
| 夙愿得偿 | to have a long-cherished wish realized | |
| 夙世 | previous life | |
| 夙愿以偿 | a long-cherished ambition is realized | |
| 夙夜 | morning and night; always; at all times | |
| 夙兴夜寐 | to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard; to study diligently; to burn the candl… | |
| 夙诺 | old promise; long-standing commitment | |
| 夙敌 | old foe; long-standing enemy | |
| 夙愿 | long-cherished wish | |
| 夙夜匪懈 | to work from morning to night (idiom) | |
| 夙嫌 | old grudge; long-standing resentment |