Reading and Writing Chinese by William McNaughton

Author:William McNaughton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781462913497
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

CHÉN, be early; the fifth “earthly branch.” EARLY radical (187) [D]

辰 can mean “early” in the sense “early in the day” or “early in the year.” One modern scholar (Guo Moruo) thinks it is a picture of a stone tool used in ancient times to break the soil for cultivation. On the “branches,” see Lin Yutang’s Dictionary 1451f.

时辰 shíchén time, hour

CHÉN, morning [A]

This appears to be a meaning-meaning compound: “early” + “sun” (suggesting “day”) = “morning.”

晨光 chénguāng light of the morning sun, dawn

晨星 chénxīng a morning star

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