晨
morning; dawn; daybreak
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,125 U+6668
How 晨 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
日 (semantic, “sun”) + 辰 (phonetic, chén)
How to remember it
morning · Heisig RSH #1468
sun + 辰 sign of the dragon
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 辰
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 辰 (chén) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辰 sound component | chén | early morning; fortune, good luck; 5th terrestrial branch |
| 震 | zhèn | shake, quake, tremor; to excite |
| 振 | zhèn | to arouse, to excite; to rouse, to shake |
| 唇 | chún | lips |
| 赈 | zhèn | to relieve, to aid; rich |
| 娠 | shēn | pregnant |
| 蜃 | shèn | clam; sea serpent |
| 宸 | chén | imperial palace |
Words containing 晨
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一日之计在于晨 | yī rì zhī jì zài yú chén | make your day's plan early in the morning (idiom); early morning is the golden time of the… |
| 华商晨报 | Huá shāng Chén bào | China Business Morning Post (morning edition of China Business News 華商報|华商报) |
| 北京晨报 | Běi jīng Chén bào | Beijing Morning Post, newspaper published 1998-2018 |
| 昏定晨省 | hūn dìng chén xǐng | seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty) |
| 晨昏定省 | chén hūn dìng xǐng | morning and evening visits to parents; cf 昏定晨省[hun1 ding4 chen2 xing3] |
| 晨星 | chén xīng | morning stars |
| 晨报 | chén bào | morning newspaper; (in a newspaper's name) Morning Post |
| 清晨 | qīng chén | early morning |
| 晨间 | chén jiān | (of the) morning |
| 晨露 | chén lù | morning dew |
| 晨歌 | chén gē | morning chorus (birdsong) |
| 早晨 | zǎo chén | early morning; also pr. [zao3chen5] |
| 晨跑 | chén pǎo | to go for a morning run |
| 晨钟暮鼓 | chén zhōng mù gǔ | lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom); fig. encouragement… |
| 暮鼓晨钟 | mù gǔ chén zhōng | lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom); fig. Buddhist monastic practice; the passage of t… |
| 今晨 | jīn chén | this morning |
| 寥若晨星 | liáo ruò chén xīng | rare as morning stars (idiom); few and far between; sparse |
| 晨练 | chén liàn | morning exercise |
| 牝鸡司晨 | pìn jī sī chén | female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority; women meddle in politi… |
| 晨昏 | chén hūn | morning and twilight; day and night |