晨

晨 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日一一女 (AMMV), four-corner 6023₂, composition ⿱日辰)

• 𮱗, 𮳐, 𤡠, 𣊐, 𤍴, 𮴭, 𩀭, 鷐(𫜀), 𫳳, 𬞀

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 496, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13962
• Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1512, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6668

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djɯn, *ɦljɯn) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 辰 (OC *djɯn, “time”). Originally written as 辰 alone; 辰 now refers primarily to one of the twelve earthly branches.

Endopassive of 震 (OC *tjɯn, “to shake”) and 振 (OC *tjɯn, *tjɯns, “to excite”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dar ~ d(u/i)r (“to tremble; to shiver”), literally "to stir oneself" > "when life begins to stir" > "early morning" (Schuessler, 2007). Smith (2011) relates 晨 (chén, “early morning”) to 辰 (chén) < *dən, the original form of 蜃 (shèn, “mollusc, clam”) < *dəns, as the rising sun looks ovoid due to atmospheric refraction.

晨

1. dawn; morning; daybreak
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of cock) to herald the break of day

• “晨”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “晨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 29.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. morning; early

• Go-on: じん (jin)
• Kan-on: しん (shin)
• Kun: あした (ashita, 晨)、とき (toki, 晨)

From Middle Chinese 晨 (MC dzyin|zyin). Recorded as Middle Korean 신 (sin) (Yale: sin) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

晨

Wikisource

晨 (eumhun 새벽 신 (saebyeok sin))

1. hanja form^? of 신 (“dawn”)

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

晨: Hán Nôm readings: thần

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