晝

晝 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中土日一 (LGAM), four-corner 5010₆, composition ⿱書一)

• 𣻱, 𮉂

• 昼 (Japanese shinjitai and simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 495, character 43
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13948
• Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1515, character 2
• Unihan data for U+665D

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 聿 + 日 (“sun”). Used to mean “daytime” in ancient texts.

The significance and meaning of the 聿 component, as present in the oracle bone inscriptions, is not clear. Various theories exist, including that it serves as a phonetic component, in which case the character would be a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tus) : phonetic 聿 (OC *b·lud) + semantic 日 (“sun”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-duk (“daytime; noon”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan གདུགས (gdugs, “midday; umbrella”).

晝

1. daytime; day; daylight

   • 宰予晝寢。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     宰予昼寝。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Zǎi Yǔ zhòuqǐn.

     Zai Yu was asleep at daytime.

   • 晝爾于茅、宵爾索綯。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     昼尔于茅、宵尔索绹。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

     Zhòu ěr yú máo, xiāo ěr suǒ táo.

     In the day time collect the grass, and at night twist it into ropes.

   • 式號式呼、俾晝作夜。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     式号式呼、俾昼作夜。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

     Shì hào shì hū, bǐ zhòu zuò yè.

     Amid clamour and shouting, you turn the day into night.

2. (Hakka, Min) lunch
3. An ancient placename in modern-day Zibo, Shandong province, China.
4. a surname

• “晝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 昼)

1. Kyūjitai form of 昼

• Go-on: ちゅう (chū)^{←ちう (tiu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅう (chū)^{←ちう (tiu, historical)}
• Kun: ひる (hiru, 晝)

From Middle Chinese 晝 (MC trjuwH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

晝

Wikisource

晝 (eumhun 낮 주 (nat ju))

1. hanja form^? of 주 (“daytime”)

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

Derived from 日 (pi₁, “day”), suffixed with an element ru of unclear meaning. Compare 夜 (yo₁) → 夜 (yo₁ru, “night, evening”), which seems to use this same ru element.

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

晝 (pi₁ru) (kana ひる)

1. the daytime
   • 711–712, Kojiki, poem 21:

     宇泥備夜麻比流波久毛登韋由布佐禮婆加是布加牟登曾許能波佐夜牙流

     Unebi₂-yama pi₁ru pa kumo₁ to₂ wi yupu sareba kaza pukamu to₂ so₂ ko₂no₂pa sayage₁ru

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• 夜晝 (yo₁rupi₁ru)

• Japanese: 昼 (hiru)

晝: Hán Nôm readings: chú, trú

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