夕 · xī

evening

Radical pronunciation

Radical summary

#36

Kangxi

3

Strokes

#32

Frequency

Visual hint

An evening crescent moon: a left-curving stroke with a dot inside.

Suggests evening, dusk, night, or the twilight hours.

varies

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夕

3 examples

外

wài

outside; foreign

HSK 1

名

míng

name; reputation

HSK 2

多

duō

many; much; more

HSK 1

Evening radical. Found in 外 (outside), 名 (name), 多 (many/much).

A crescent moon at dusk — the sliver of moon that appears just as the sun sets.

月: 夕 is a small evening crescent; 月 is the fuller moon with two horizontal strokes inside.

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