晨
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morning; dawn; daybreak
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 日 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 晨
- Common rank
- #2,125
- Unicode
- U+6668
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Formation & memory
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Words with 晨
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一日之计在于晨 | make your day's plan early in the morning (idiom); early morning is the golden time of the… | |
| 华商晨报 | China Business Morning Post (morning edition of China Business News 華商報|华商报) | |
| 北京晨报 | Beijing Morning Post, newspaper published 1998-2018 | |
| 昏定晨省 | seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty) | |
| 晨昏定省 | morning and evening visits to parents; cf 昏定晨省[hun1 ding4 chen2 xing3] | |
| 晨星 | morning stars | |
| 晨报 | morning newspaper; (in a newspaper's name) Morning Post | |
| 清晨 | early morning | |
| 晨间 | (of the) morning | |
| 晨露 | morning dew | |
| 晨歌 | morning chorus (birdsong) | |
| 早晨 | early morning; also pr. [zao3chen5] | |
| 晨跑 | to go for a morning run | |
| 晨钟暮鼓 | lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom); fig. encouragement… | |
| 暮鼓晨钟 | lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom); fig. Buddhist monastic practice; the passage of t… | |
| 今晨 | this morning | |
| 寥若晨星 | rare as morning stars (idiom); few and far between; sparse | |
| 晨练 | morning exercise | |
| 牝鸡司晨 | female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority; women meddle in politi… | |
| 晨昏 | morning and twilight; day and night |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 辰 — compare how they read.