朝
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imperial or royal court; government; dynasty; reign of a sovereign or emperor; court or assembly held by a sovereign or emperor; to make a pilgrimage to; facing; towards
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 月 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 朝
- Common rank
- #350
- Unicode
- U+671D
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
dynasty · Heisig RSH #49
moon + mist
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 朝
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有朝一日 | one day; sometime in the future | |
| 朝天区 | Chaotian, a district of Guangyuan City 廣元市|广元市[Guang3 yuan2 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 头朝下 | (falling or suspended) head downwards; headfirst; headlong | |
| 朝阳县 | Chaoyang, a county in Chaoyang City 朝陽市|朝阳市[Chao2 yang2 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 朝阳区 | Chaoyang, an inner district of Beijing; Chaoyang, a district of Changchun City 長春市|长春市[Cha… | |
| 朝阳市 | Chaoyang, prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3] | |
| 明朝体 | Mincho font | |
| 素面朝天 | lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Y… | |
| 热火朝天 | in full swing (idiom); (in a) frenzy; buzzing with activity | |
| 国朝 | the current dynasty | |
| 朝阳门 | Chaoyangmen neighborhood of Beijing | |
| 中朝 | Sino-Korean; China and North Korea | |
| 朝中 | North Korea-China | |
| 天朝 | Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China; Taiping Heavenly Kingdom | |
| 朝天 | see 朝天區|朝天区[Chao2 tian1 Qu1] | |
| 朝天 | to have an audience with the Emperor; to be presented at court; to look skyward; to look u… | |
| 有朝 | one day; sometime in the future | |
| 金朝 | Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真[Nu:3 zhen1] people of North China, a pr… | |
| 新罗王朝 | Silla, Korean kingdom 57 BC-935 AD; one of the Korean Three Kingdoms from 1st century AD, … | |
| 朝气 | vitality; dynamism |