夕 - xī - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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夕

xī

Definition

sunset
twilight
meaning component (time, night, night time activities...)
dusk
evening
night
radical (Kang Xi 36)
Taiwan pr. [xi4]

Character Decomposition

Compounds (27)

多

duō

many; much; more (than); a lot; have (a specific amount) more (or too much); how (to what extent); over; to what extent (in exclamations)

将

jiàng

general; commander-in-chief (military); king (chess piece); to command; to lead

将

jiāng

will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago

死

sǐ

to die; to the death; extremely; to death; dead

名

míng

name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier (for people); measure word

外

wài

outside; out; exterior; foreign; external; beyond

岁

suì

age; classifier (for years when talking about age); measure word; years (of age); year (literary)

dream

gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift

奖

jiǎng

award; prize; reward; to praise; encouragement

酱

jiàng

thick paste of fermented soybean; paste; sauce; marinated in soy paste; jam

浆

jiāng

broth; serum; to starch

starch paste

oar; paddle

night tides; evening ebbtide; Taiwan pr. [xi4]

歹

dǎi

bad; wicked; evil; meaning component (bad, wicked, evil); death; radical (Kang Xi 78)

舛

chuǎn

error; mistaken; erroneous; contradictory; contrary; radical (Kang Xi 136); to oppose

矽

xī

silicon (chemistry); Taiwan pr. [xi4]

(literary) supper

tomb

late at night

to press or squeeze hard

夗

yuàn

to turn over (when asleep)

silicon

second-round simplified character for 餐

芕

suī

a kind of medicinal herb

将

qiāng

to desire; to invite; to request

Related words (8)

夕照

xī zhào

glow of the setting sun

夕阳

xī yáng

sunset; the setting sun

夕阳产业

xī yáng chǎn yè

sunset industry; declining industry

eve; the day before

morning and night; all the time

小除夕

xiǎo chú xī

the day before New Year's Eve

see 只争朝夕

a beautiful day; cf Birthday of the Flowers on lunar 15th February and Mid-autumn Festival on lunar 15th August

Idioms (13)

夕阳西下

xī yáng xī xià

the sun sets in the west (idiom)

一夕数惊

yī xī shù jīng

one scare after another (idiom); in a constant state of tension

一朝一夕

yī zhāo yī xī

(lit.) one morning and one evening (idiom); (fig.) in a short period of time; overnight

危在旦夕

wēi zài dàn xī

in imminent peril (idiom); on the brink of crisis

只争朝夕

zhǐ zhēng zhāo xī

to seize every minute (idiom); to make the best use of one's time

命在旦夕

mìng zài dàn xī

to be at death's door (idiom)

朝不保夕

zhāo bù bǎo xī

at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state; imminent crisis; living from hand to mouth

朝不虑夕

zhāo bù lǜ xī

at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state; imminent crisis; living from hand to mouth

朝乾夕惕

zhāo qián xī tì

cautious and diligent all day long (idiom)

朝令夕改

zhāo lìng xī gǎi

to make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy (idiom)

朝过夕改

zhāo guò xī gǎi

to correct in the evening a fault of the morning (idiom); to quickly amend one's ways

朝闻夕改

zhāo wén xī gǎi

(lit.) heard in the morning and changed by the evening; to correct an error very quickly (idiom)

朝饔夕飧

zhāo yōng xī sūn

(lit.) breakfast in the morning and supper in the evening (idiom); (fig.) to do nothing but eat and drink

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