guǐ
shadows of sun
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 晷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
sundial | ||
sundial | ||
to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day | ||
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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