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Chinese
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dark; night; unlucky
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day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
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simp. and trad.
(晦日)
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晦
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日
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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晦
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日
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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huì
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rì
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ xwojH ›
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‹ nyit ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*m̥ˁək-s/
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/*C.nik/
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| English
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last day of a moon; dark
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sun; day
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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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晦
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日
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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9315
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10845
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Phonetic
component
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母
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日
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Rime
group
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之
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質
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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日
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Old
Chinese
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/*hmɯːs/
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/*njiɡ/
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Noun
晦日
- (literary) the last day of a month in the lunar calendar
Coordinate terms
Descendants
Japanese
Etymology 1
/kʷai zitʉ/ → /kʷaiʑit͡su/ → /kaiʑit͡su/
From Middle Chinese 晦日 (MC xwojH nyit).
Pronunciation
Noun
晦日 • (kaijitsu) ←くわいじつ (kwaizitu)?
- the last day of a month in the lunar calendar
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 晦日 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 晦日, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of 晦日 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 晦日, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Usage notes
The kanji spelling is from kaijitsu above.
Derived terms
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