Sinograph Addenda · Signs

evening

Name	evening
Reads	xī
Means	evening, dusk
Taught in	08 · Stopping at true

Where it comes from

The moon 月 with one stroke withheld — the sliver that rises while the sky is still light: evening. Pinned as the component 名 needs. Taught in the stopping-at-true chapter.

How to remember it

Not yet the full moon of night — just its first sliver: evening. One stroke short of 月, one hour short of dark.

In the wild

名不正，則言不順。míng bù zhèng, zé yán bù shùnworking inside 名 — the evening half of "name" — in the very sentence about names

Analects 13.3. urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1h0004:013:7a · license: attribution.