晾晒
liàng​shài

sun-dry

晾 liàng air-dry

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

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
京
京 Sound component
jīng capital city

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

晒 shài be in sunshine Simplified

Simplified form of 曬. Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 麗 represents the sound.

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
西
西 Simplified component
xi, xī west

Shorthand for the phonetic component 麗 in the traditional character 曬.

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

曬 be in sunshine Traditional

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

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
麗
麗 Sound component
lì beautiful
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsreaHsre-s to sun (Hàn time)

說文解字

《說文》：“曬，也。从日，麗聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)