HSK 5 · Verbs

晒 shài “to dry in the sun” in Chinese

Traditional 曬

What 晒 means

  1. to dry in the sun
  2. to sunbathe
  3. (of the sun) to shine on
  4. to bask in (the sunshine)
  5. to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (fig.) to expose and share (one’s experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from “share”)
  • (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to

How to say 晒

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale晒shài4th tone, falling

晒 in a sentence

  1. 他常常坐着晒太阳，什么也不做。

    Tā chángcháng zuòzhe shài tàiyáng, shénme yě bú zuò.

    He often sits in the sun doing nothing.

    Sentence #348908 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 去阳台上晒晒太阳怎么样？

    Qù yángtái shàng shàishai tàiyáng zěnmeyàng?

    How about going out on the balcony to get some sun?

    Sentence #12283022 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 他晒不黑。

    Tā shài bu hēi.

    He doesn’t tan.

    Sentence #454618 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 晒 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 晒 (shài) with each of its parts in a different colour
晒shàito shine on
  • 日sun · rìMeaning part
  • 西west · xīSound part

日 hints at the meaning (sun); 西 (xī) hints at the sound. Compare it with shài.

How to write 晒

晒 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

晒 (shài) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 晒 (shài). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 晒

More words: Common Verbs

绕rào · to wind忍不住rěnbuzhù · cannot help洒sǎ · to sprinkle杀shā · to kill上当shàngdàng · to be fooled舍不得shěbude · to hate to part with伸shēn · to stretch升shēng · to rise

FAQs

晒 (shài) means “to dry in the sun” or “to sunbathe”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shài: shài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 晒 is written 曬. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晒 from the suggestions. Typing shai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晒 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.