夕

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Radical 36 夕

夕 (Kangxi radical 36, 夕+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈 (NI), four-corner 2720₀, composition ⿴𠂊丶)

1. Kangxi radical #36, ⼣.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/夕
• 㐴, 𡚵, 𡯌, 𢗇, 𪭜, 汐, 𨑚, 𭥑, 𣏐, 㶤, 𤓵, 𭀞, 矽, 𣥛, 𦫓, 𧈷, 釸, 𩖡, 𩲁, 𬪼, 邜, 舛, 斘, 飧, 𪚪
• 名, 𪧷, 𢁟, 𬉹, 𡵪, 𤰧, 𮌉, 𦥜, 𧥧, 𩁼, 𩚏, 𦂞, 歹, 㒱, 歺, 岁, 𡿪, 芕, 㱑, 𥝘, 穸, 罗, 𧖪, 㱔, 𭡂, 梦, 匇
• 奖, 桨, 浆, 酱, 䇟, 摉

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 246, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5749
• Dae Jaweon: page 487, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 859, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5915

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 夕
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) — moon crescent. Compare 月.

Etymology 1

Related to 汐 (OC *ljaːɡ, “evening tide”).

Schuessler (2007) suggests it is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(j)ak (“day; full day; to spend the night”); cognate with Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”), Mizo riak (“to pass the night”), Jingpho (jaʔ⁵⁵, “day (24 hours)”), Burmese ရက် (rak, “day (24 hours)”), Lahu há (“night; to pass the night”); may also be cognate with 宿 (OC *suɡs, *suɡ, “to spend the night”) and 昔 (OC *sjaːɡ, “former times”). It is noted that in the oracle bone script, the 24 hour day started and ended some time in the evening or night. Since 日 (rì, “sun”) has acquired the meaning of "day (24 hours)", 夕 was then restricted to the time of the day's end.

On the other hand, STEDT suggests 夕 (OC *ljaːɡ, “evening; night”) was derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ja-n (“night”), from which 夜 (OC *laːɡs, “night”) was also derived. However, 夕 was also compared to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(j)ak (“day; full day; to spend the night”). Schuessler (2007) assigns Chinese 夜 (yè) to *ja (“night”) instead, and notes *ja (“night”) and *ryak (“day (24 hours)”) were kept strictly separate in Tibeto-Burman.

Pronunciation

Definitions

夕

1. night; evening; dusk

   • 哀我征夫、朝夕不暇。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Āi wǒ zhēngfū, zhāoxī bùxiá.

     Woe to us soldiers on these expeditions! Morning and evening we have no rest.

   • 今夕何夕兮，搴舟中流。今日何日兮，得與王子同舟。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     今夕何夕兮，搴舟中流。今日何日兮，得与王子同舟。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Shuoyuan, circa 1^st century BCE

     Jīnxī hé xī xī, qiān zhōu zhōngliú. Jīnrì hérì xī, dé yǔ wángzǐ tóng zhōu.

     What night is tonight, that I take a boat into the stream? What day is today, that I get to share a boat with a prince?

Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00839
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03133-001-1

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. evening

Readings

• Go-on: じゃく (jaku)^{←じやく (zyaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: ゆう (yū, 夕, Jōyō)^{←ゆふ (yufu, 夕, historical)}; ゆうべ (yūbe, 夕べ)^{←ゆふべ (yufube, 夕べ, historical)}

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *yupu.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ゆう (Heiban – )
• (Tokyo) ゆ​う (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

夕(ゆう) • (yū) ^{←ゆふ (yufu)?}

1. evening

See also

• 夕(ゆう)べ (yūbe)
• 夕(ゆう)暮(ぐ)れ (yūgure)
• 夕(ゆう)方(がた) (yūgata)
• 夕(ゆう)食(しょく) (yūshoku)

References

Korean

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 夕 (MC zjek).

Recorded as Middle Korean 쎡〮 (Yale: ssyek) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean 셕〮 (syék) (Yale: syek) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

夕

Wikisource

夕 (eumhun 저녁 석 (jeonyeok seok))

1. Hanja form^? of 석 (“evening”).

Compounds

Etymology 2

Hanja

夕 (eumhun 한 움큼 사 (han umkeum sa))

1. Hanja form^? of 사 (“A unit of capacity: one tenth of a 합 (合, hap), same as 작 (勺, jak)”).

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Okinawan

Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: ゆー (yū, 夕)

Etymology

Cognate with Japanese 夕 (yū).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juː/

Noun

夕(ゆー) (yū) 

1. night, evening

Derived terms

Vietnamese

Han character

夕: Hán Nôm readings: tịch

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