旭
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dawn; rising sun
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 日 +2
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 旭
- Common rank
- #4,252
- Unicode
- U+65ED
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Formation & memory
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Words with 旭
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圣德克旭贝里 | (Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry | |
| 旭日 | the rising sun | |
| 林旭 | Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the u… | |
| 张旭 | Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 九 — compare how they read.