懂中文 Dong Chinese

旭

xù

rising sun

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 九 represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

九 sound component

九  Sound component

jiǔ

  

nine

Evolution

旭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
旭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

旭  

xù

rising sun; brilliance; radiant; dawn

Most common words with 旭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

旭

dawn

旭日

the rising sun

张旭

Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書|草书

林旭

Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wù​xū​Liù​jūn​zi] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898