朔 — Chinese character
朔
shuò
beginning; the first day of the lunar month
- Pinyin
- shuò
- Radical
- 74 ⽉ (Moon)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 屰 月
- Formation
- pictophonetic — moon; meaning component 月; sound component 月
- Japanese
- 朔 as a kanji
Common words with 朔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扑朔迷离 (撲朔迷離) | pū shuò mí lí | impossible to unravel; confusing |
| 朔望 | shuò wàng | the new moon; the first day of the lunar month |
| 朔日 | shuò rì | first day of the lunar month |
| 朔月 | shuò yuè | new moon; first day of the lunar month |
| 朔风 (朔風) | shuò fēng | north wind |
| 正朔 | zhēng shuò | first day of the first lunar month; (old) calendar promulgated by the first emperor of a dynasty |
| 扑朔 (撲朔) | pū shuò | see 扑朔迷离 (pū shuò mí lí) |
| 旬朔 | xún shuò | ten days; one month |
| 月朔 | yuè shuò | the first day of each month |
| 朔望潮 | shuò wàng cháo | spring tide (biggest tide, at new moon or full moon) |
| 朔风凛冽 (朔風凜冽) | shuò fēng lǐn liè | The north wind is icy cold. |
English words written with 朔
朔 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Zhuangzi 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.