曰

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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Radical 73 曰

曰 (Kangxi radical 73, 曰+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 日 (A) or 難日 (XA), four-corner 6010₀, composition ⿴囗一)

1. Kangxi radical #73, ⽈.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/曰
• 抇, 汩, 㫗, 𡿯, 𣅕, 𣌰, 𧴴, 𬵅, 昌, 㫚, 𣆩, 㑹, 暜, 魯, 䖜, 曆

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with 日, which is generally slimmer and taller, and has a middle stroke that often extends to both sides in non-regular script fonts. In some handwritten forms, the horizontal and vertical stroke at the upper left corner are not connected because of the glyph origin.

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 502, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14278
• Dae Jaweon: page 872, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1482, character 2
• Unihan data for U+66F0

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Ideogram (指事) : a mouth (口) with word or breath (一) coming out. Compare 今 and 言, where a small stroke is also used to represent words.

Etymology

Cognate with 話 (OC *ɡroːds) according to Sagart (1999); if so, it is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwas (“to speak; word”), whence Tibetan གྲོས་སྡུར་བྱེད་པ (gros sdur byed pa, “to consult; to discuss”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Definitions

曰

1. (literary or Shuangfeng Xiang) to say; to speak

   • 子曰：「溫故而知新，可以為師矣。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子曰：「温故而知新，可以为师矣。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zǐ yuē: “Wēn gù ér zhī xīn, kěyǐ wèi shī yǐ.”

     The Master said, "If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others."

   • 翁笑曰：「平昔不相往還，何由遺魂吾家？」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     翁笑曰：「平昔不相往还，何由遗魂吾家？」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 聊齋志異, 第2卷

     Wēng xiào yuē: “Píng xī bù xiàng wǎng hái, hé yóu yí hún wú jiā?”

     The old man laughed and said, "In normal days we don't have much of a relation, why would you want to call back the dead's soul in my house?"

2. (literary) to be called (the name of)

   • 帝高陽之苗裔兮，朕皇考曰伯庸。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     帝高阳之苗裔兮，朕皇考曰伯庸。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Dì Gāoyáng zhī miáoyì xī, zhèn huángkǎo yuē Bóyōng.

     Springing forth from the seeds of King Gaoyang
     My glorious late Father was styled Boyong.

Synonyms

Compounds

References

• “曰”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. say

Readings

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on: おち (ochi)^{←をち (woti, historical)}
• Kan-on: えつ (etsu)^{←ゑつ (wetu, historical)}
• Kun: いう (iu, 曰う)^{←いふ (ifu, 曰ふ, historical)}; いわく (iwaku, 曰く)^{←いはく (ifaku, 曰く, historical)}; のたばく (notabaku, 曰ばく); のたまう (notamau, 曰う)^{←のたまふ (notamafu, 曰ふ, historical)}; のたもう (notamou, 曰う)^{←のたまふ (notamafu, 曰ふ, historical)}; のたまわく (notamawaku, 曰く)^{←のたまはく (notamafaku, 曰く, historical)}; のたまわす (notamawasu, 曰わす)^{←のたまはす (notamafasu, 曰はす, historical)}; のとうぶ (notōbu, 曰ぶ)^{←のたうぶ (notaubu, 曰ぶ, historical)}

Usage notes

Named as 平日 (hirabi, literally “wide hi”) to distinguish from the 日 (hi, “sun, day”) kanji.

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 曰 (MC hjwot).

Pronunciation

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

Hanja

曰 (eumhun 가로 왈 (garo wal))

1. Hanja form^? of 왈 (“...said (denoting the creator of a quote)”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

曰: Hán Việt readings: viết (王(vương)伐(phạt)切(thiết))
曰: Nôm readings: viết, vít, vết, vịt, vệt, vắt, vất

1. Nôm form of viết (“to write”).
2. Nôm form of vít (“wound; scar”).

References