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晒shài

to dry in the sun. 10 strokes, radical 日, first met in HSK 4.

Pinyin shàiStrokes 10Radical 日Band HSK 4Words 1

How to write 晒

Strokes 1–4 write 日, then strokes 5–10 write 西.

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Stroke order chart for 晒 — 10 strokes, radical 日

Write 晒 on the grid

Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.

Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 晒 · the stroke-order rules

What 晒 is made of

日 (rì, sun) and 西 (xī, west).

日 carries the meaning — sun — and 西 carries the sound.

Words that use 晒

晒(shài) to dry in the sun
把东西放在太阳下面,让它变干

员工趁着晴天把被子拿去晒。Staff take the quilts out to sun-dry while it's sunny.

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Characters that share the sound part 西

Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.

洒sǎ牺xī

More characters with the radical 日

All 31 of them, and what the radical means, on the 日 radical page.

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