Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Evening (xī) Kangxi Strokes: 8 Page 247, Entry 01 Explanation in the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): Same as the character for clear weather. It refers to the clouds dispersing after rain at night, allowing the stars to be visible. Xu Xuan states: The contemporary common form is written with the sun radical, which is incorrect. General essentials: It is written with the evening radical and the star component. It is a compound ideograph. Orthography Guide (Zhengzitong) states: The character with the sun radical is the general term for weather clearing up, applicable to both day and night. The scholars who restrict the meaning to clearing up at night based on the character components of evening and star are incorrect. Sometimes written in a variant form (jǐng). History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Treatise on Astronomy: Records that when the sky is clear, the jing star appears. Additionally, in the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced zheng. It has the same meaning. This character is composed of the evening radical and the star component.