123456
Keyword
dawn
  • the rising sun
  • brilliant
  • radiant
Frequency
#3484
Strokes
6
Readings
xù
Mnemonic
日 (sun) gives the meaning and 九 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
旭xù
dawn; rising sun
旭日xùrì
the rising sun
张旭ZhāngXù
Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草书
林旭LínXù
Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 (WùxūLiùjūnzi) of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898