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Translingual
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Han character
昭 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日尸竹口 (ASHR), four-corner 67062, composition ⿰日召)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 493, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13855
- Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1504, character 9
- Unihan data for U+662D
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 刀
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*taːw
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| 忉
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*taːw
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| 魛
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*taːw
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| 舠
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*taːw
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| 朷
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*taːw, *moːɡ
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| 叨
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*tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
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| 倒
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*taːwʔ, *taːws
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| 到
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*taːws
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| 菿
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*taːws, *rtaːwɢ
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| 鞀
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*deːw
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| 鳭
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*rteːw, *teːw
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| 灱
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*hreːw
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| 菬
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*sdew, *tjewʔ
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| 超
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*tʰew
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| 怊
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*tʰew, *tʰjew
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| 欩
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*tʰew
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| 召
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*dews, *djews
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| 昭
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*tjew
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| 招
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*tjew
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| 鉊
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*tjew
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| 沼
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*tjewʔ
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| 照
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*tjews
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| 詔
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*tjews
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| 炤
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*tjews
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| 弨
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*tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
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| 眧
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*tʰjewʔ
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| 韶
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*djew
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| 佋
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*djew, *djewʔ
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| 軺
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*djew, *lew
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| 玿
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*djew
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| 柖
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*djew
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| 紹
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*djewʔ
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| 袑
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*djewʔ
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| 綤
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*djewʔ
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| 邵
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*djews
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| 劭
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*djews
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| 卲
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*djews
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| 刁
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*teːw
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| 芀
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*teːw, *deːw
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| 貂
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*teːw
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| 蛁
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*teːw
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| 迢
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*deːw
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| 苕
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*deːw
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| 髫
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*deːw
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| 岧
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*deːw
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjew) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 召 (OC *dews, *djews).
Etymology
照 (OC *tjews, “to shine”) is the exoactive of 昭 (OC *tjew, “bright”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Compare with Burmese တောက် (tauk, “bright, brilliant, shining”).
Pronunciation
Note: ziu1 - variant.
Note:
- ziao1 - Shantou;
- ziou1 - Chaozhou.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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昭
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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zhāo
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tsyew ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*taw/
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| English
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bright
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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昭
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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2127
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Phonetic
component
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刀
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Rime
group
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宵
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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昭
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Old
Chinese
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/*tjew/
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Definitions
昭
- (literary) bright; luminous
- obvious; clear
- (literary) to display; to make clear
- (literary) light
- illustrious
- (historical) the left side position of tablets in ancestral shrines
- Antonym: 穆 (mù)
- a surname
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
昭
(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)
Readings
Etymology 1
/seu/ → /ɕeu/ → /ɕʲoː/
From Middle Chinese 昭 (MC tsyew).
Affix
昭 • (shō) ←せう (seu)?
- bright
- enlightened, glorious
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Nominalization of the stem of adjective 明らか (akiraka, “clear, visible”).
Proper noun
昭 • (Akira)
- a male given name
Korean
Hanja
昭 • (so, jo) (hangeul 소, 조, revised so, jo, McCune–Reischauer so, cho, Yale so, co)
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Vietnamese
Han character
昭: Hán Nôm readings: chiu, chiêu
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