晨chen · chén
dawn, early morning. 11 strokes, radical 日, first met in HSK 2.
How to write 晨
Strokes 1–4 write 日, then strokes 5–11 write 辰.
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 晨 · the stroke-order rules
What 晨 is made of
日 (rì, sun) and 辰 (chén, early morning).
日 carries the meaning — sun — and 辰 carries the sound.
Words that use 晨
| 早晨 | early morning 太阳刚升起不久的那段时间 清凉的早晨，他去巡逻。In the cool early morning, he went out on patrol. Lesson 97, 吃早餐 · 返璞归真与立己达人 · Return to Simplicity & Cultivating the Self |
| 清晨 | early morning 指天刚亮的一段时间 清晨天空晴朗一片澄澈。Early morning, the sky was clear and bright. Lesson 471, 朗晨规治 · 勤敏笃学与惠泽人间 · Industrious Culture & Altruistic Humanity |
Characters that share the sound part 辰
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 日
All 31 of them, and what the radical means, on the 日 radical page.