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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- shai4
- English meanings
- air, cold-shoulder, soak up sun, sun-dry, shine on, sun upturned soil
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 日; right 西.
Meaning & sound clues
日 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “sun”.
西 is identified as the sound component (xī). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 晒.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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