Character Details
| noon | Ascii: — | w156 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 午 | wǔ | oo | 3 | 十 (cross) + 丿 (slash) → noon | 午 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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He is ready for a nap at NOON (meaning), so he is happy to see the nurse (十) carrying the sunbed (𠂉) above her head" | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - At five in the afternoon | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 52 - 丿 | piě | left (or right) leg | left-falling stroke | left‑slanting slash | 片 久 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 十 (cross) + 丿 (slash) → noon | 十 (semantic origin) | 干 (phonetic) | ancient form related to 干 | ||||||||