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evening 夕
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This radical is similar to moon: 月, but at the evening the moon is not complete and thus only one inner line.
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Used in these characters:
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多
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| many, much, numerous, multi-
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Twice evening 夕 (When the moon 月 is not yet fully there, it is only evening.)
Two evenings can be too many.
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名
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| reputation, (good) name, famous
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Evening 夕 (Resembles the moon 月, but since a line is missing, it is only the evening) and mouth 口
In the evening they talk about people's reputation.
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岁
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| years of life, classifier for years (of age)
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: evening 夕 (When the moon 月 is not yet fully there, it is only evening.)
Like a mountain pile up the evenings of the years of my life.
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外
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| outside, foreign, external
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Left: evening 夕 (When the moon 月 is not yet fully there, it is only evening.), right: bifurcation/parting of the ways 卜
If you are in the evening (alone) at a fork of the road, you are: a foreign outsider.
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梦
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| dream, illusion
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Top: forest 林 (2 trees 木), below: evening 夕 (When the moon 月 is not yet fully there, it is only evening.)
Like a forest in the evening, that's my dream.
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够
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to be enough, to reach
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Left: sentence 句 (= sth. wrapped 勹 out of the mouth 口), right: many 多 (two evenings 夕)
(Not only) one sentence, but many are enough (to reach ...).
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奖
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| reward, prize, award, encouragement
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Top: bed 丬, evening 夕 (When the moon 月 is not yet fully there, it is only evening.), bottom: large 大
Going to bed in the evening can be a big: reward.
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怨
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to blame, grudge, to complain, grumble
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Top: 夗 (evening 夕, slumped person 㔾), below: heart 心
In the evening, a slumped person's heart is: blaming and feels grudge.
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夕
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| evening, dusk
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The sign refers to the moon 夕/月
If the moon is not yet complete (one line is missing), it is only: evening.
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夜
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| night
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At top a cover/roof 亠 (of a building), below a person 亻/人 and a variant of moon 月
On the roof is a person watching the moon during the night.
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酱
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| sauce, paste (of fermented soy bean), jam
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Top: bed 丬 (here: fragment cf:爿,片) and evening 夕, bottom: alcohol 酉 (image of a bottle)
(The leftovers from the party are fermented) Put the fragments (=leftovers ) from the evening into an alcohol bottle and you will get a sauce.
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桨
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| paddle, oar
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Top: bed 丬(here: simplification of fragment 爿 cf. 片) and evening 夕 (here: image of a paddle), bottom: tree 木
A (whittled) fragment, that looks like a paddle 夕, and is made of wood is: the paddle.
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啰
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| (final exclamatory particle)
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Left: mouth 口, right: to sift, chatty 罗 (With the net 罒 until the evening 夕 whe have to sift it.)
A mouth that is chatty makes an exclamation.
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罗
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to sift, gauze, to collect, chatty
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Fishing net or variant of eyes 罒, bottom: evening 夕 (When the moon 月 is not yet fully there, it is only evening.)
With the net until the evening: We have to sift it.
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宛
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JLPT no HSK |
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| just like, as if, winding
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Top: roof 宀, below: 夗 (evening 夕, slumped Person 㔾)
At home [= under my roof], when I am slumped in the evening (e.g. on the television coach) it's always just the like.
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秽
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JLPT no HSK |
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| dirt, filth
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Left: rice plant 禾, right: years of age 岁 (Like a mountain 山, such (many) evenings 夕 are my years of life.)
(Threshing rice produces a lot of chaff or husks.) The rice plants create (during threshing) a mountain and in the evening it is: dirty.
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咎
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to blame, fault, to punish, calamity, misfortune
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Top: outside, foreign 外 (If you are in the evening 夕 [alone] at a fork 卜 in the road, you are: an outsider), bottom: mouth 口
An outsider's mouth blames you.
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浆
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JLPT no HSK |
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| broth, serum, starch paste
jiāng, jiàng
丬
夕
水
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Top: bed 丬 at the evening 夕, bottom: water 水
Next to your bed, you start it at the evening with water, so that it becomes (overnight): a broth.
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