chén HSK2

early morning

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
sun
Sound component
chén early morning

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzyin[d]ər early
zyinsə-[d]ər part of Scorpio; morning

說文解字

《說文》:“曟,房星,為民田時者。从晶,辰聲。晨,曟或省。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica