夕 (xī)
dusk/evening
How 夕 is written
- Strokes
- 3
- Traditional
- 夕
- Simplified
- 夕 (unchanged)
Common words using 夕
- 除夕 chúxī
- (New Year's) Eve
- 前夕 qiánxī
- eve; the day before
- 夕陽 xīyáng
- sunset; the setting sun
- 七夕 qīxī
- double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month; girls' festival; Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
- 七夕節 qīxījié
- double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month; girls' festival; Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
- 危在旦夕 wēizàidànxī
- lit. danger now morning or evening (idiom); on the verge of death; expected any moment now; The crisis is imminent.
- 夕照 xīzhào
- glow of the setting sun
- 朝不保夕 zhāobùbǎoxī
- at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state; imminent crisis; living from hand to mouth
- 朝令夕改 zhāolìngxīgǎi
- to make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy (idiom)
- 朝夕 zhāoxī
- morning and night; all the time
- 朝花夕拾 zhāohuāxīshī
- "Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk", a collection of autobiographical essays by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4]
- 花朝月夕 huāzhāoyuèxī
- a beautiful day; cf Birthday of the Flowers on lunar 15th February and Mid-autumn Festival on lunar 15th August
夕 in a sentence
淡水的夕陽很有名。
Dànshuǐ de xīyáng hěn yǒumíng.
“The sunset in Tamsui is famous.”
How common is 夕?
夕 is the 2,000th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.1% of all running text.
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