Read Edit View history Discussion 䢅 chén (interchangeable 晨) daybreak Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents ← Back to history approved by inralback19 · Feb 14, 2026, 03:30 PM · Reviewed by inralback19 on Feb 14, 2026, 03:30 PM stroke Changed fields: strokeDataSimp, fragmentsSimp, historicalImages Character Evolution Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 《說文》：“，早昧爽也。从，从辰。辰，時也，辰亦聲。夕為，辰為，皆同意。” Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
