guǐ

shadows of sun

Components
日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

sun

咎 sound component

  Sound component

jiù

  

fault

Evolution

晷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
晷 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
晷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

guǐ

shadows of sun; time; sundial

Most common words with 晷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

日晷

sundial

sundial

焚膏继晷

to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day

日无暇晷

no time to spare (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5799th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6677

Shuowen

“晷,日景也。从日,咎聲。”


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