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晌

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part of the day; midday

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Strokes
10
Radical
日 +6
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
晌
Common rank
#3,360
Unicode
U+664C

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Formation & memory

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How 晌 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

日 meaning “sun” + 向 sound ( xiàng )

Components 日 向

How to remember it

part of the day · Heisig RSH #1556

sun + 向 orientation

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 晌

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
一时半晌 yī shí bàn shǎng a short time; a little while
前半晌儿 qián bàn shǎng r erhua variant of 前半晌[qian2 ban4 shang3]
上半晌 shàng bàn shǎng forenoon; morning; a.m.
前半晌 qián bàn shǎng morning; a.m.; first half of the day
前晌 qián shǎng (dialect) morning; forenoon
半晌 bàn shǎng half of the day; a long time; quite a while
晚晌 wǎn shǎng evening
晌午 shǎng wu noon

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 向 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
向 sound part xiàng towards; direction, trend
响 xiǎng to make noise, to make sound; sound
饷 xiǎng rations and pay for soldiers
垧 shǎng unit of area