晨 — Chinese character
晨
chén
dawn, early morning
- Pinyin
- chén
- Radical
- 72 ⽇ (Sun)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 日 辰
- Formation
- pictophonetic — sun; meaning component 日; sound component 辰
- Japanese
- 晨 as a kanji
Common words with 晨
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 凌晨 | líng chén | very early in the morning; in the wee hours |
| 早晨 | zǎo chén | early morning; also pr. [zao3chen5] |
| 清晨 | qīng chén | early morning |
| 晨报 (晨報) | chén bào | morning newspaper; (in a newspaper's name) Morning Post |
| 晨曦 | chén xī | first rays of morning sun; first glimmer of dawn |
| 今晨 | jīn chén | this morning |
| 晨间 (晨間) | chén jiān | (of the) morning |
| 晨星 | chén xīng | morning stars |
| 晨练 (晨練) | chén liàn | morning exercise |
| 晨昏 | chén hūn | morning and twilight; day and night |
| 晨勃 | chén bó | morning erection |
| 晨露 | chén lù | morning dew |
English words written with 晨
晨 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.