Character Details
| yesterday | Ascii: — | w327 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 昨 | zuò | djeu:oh | 2 | 日 (sun) + 乍 (sudden) → yesterday | 昨 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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One can use a simple word play to remember this character — the day that I saw before today was yesterday. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Today is colder than yesterday | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 72 - 方 | fāng | sun | square | slant + box | 方 旅 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 日 (sun) + 乍 (sudden) → yesterday | 日 (semantic) | 乍 (phonetic) | phonetic from 乍 | ||||||||