夕

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/夕

Glyph origin
— moon crescent. Compare.

Etymology 1
Related to.

suggests it is from ; cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; may also be cognate with and. It is noted that in the oracle bone script, the 24 hour day started and ended some time in the evening or night. Since has acquired the meaning of "day (24 hours)", 夕 was then restricted to the time of the day's end.

On the other hand, STEDT suggests was derived from, from which  was also derived. However, 夕 was also compared to. assigns Chinese to  instead, and notes  and  were kept strictly separate in Tibeto-Burman.

Definitions

 * 1) night; evening; dusk

Kanji

 * 1) evening

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) evening

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) night, evening