In this radical, the sun rises 日 behind a tree 木 in the east. The radical has been simplified to 东. In some characters, such as 拣, there is an additional short horizontal line. For reasons of simplicity, this is nevertheless also understood as "east".
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Vocabulary
向东
xiàng dōng
eastwards
1357
东非大地堑
Dōng Fēi dà dì qiàn
Great East African rift valley
8647
郝海东
Hǎo Hǎi dōng
Hao Haidong
7871
东夷
Dōng yí
Eastern Barbarians, non-Han tribe living to the east of China c 2200 BC
6099
金乌西坠，玉兔东升
jīn wū xī zhuì , yù tù dōng shēng
lit. the golden bird of the sun sets in the west, the jade hare of the moon rises in the east; fig. at sunset
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