朔

朔 (Kangxi radical 74, 月+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿山月 (TUB), four-corner 8742₀, composition ⿰屰月)

1. first day of lunar month
2. the north

• 搠, 嗍, 溯, 鎙 (𫔈), 蒴, 塑, 槊, 愬, 遡

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 505, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14359
• Dae Jaweon: page 884, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2072, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6714

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋraːɡ) : phonetic 屰 (OC *ŋraɡ) + semantic 月 (“moon”)

From 逆 (OC *ŋraɡ) plus s-prefix. Schuessler (2007) interprets it as literally "turn again toward to meet"; while Baxter & Sagart (2014) interprets it as "when the moon changes from waning to waxing", with s- being a circumstantial prefix for place, time, & instrument.

朔

1. new moon

   朔月  ―  shuòyuè  ―  new moon

2. the first day of the lunar month

   朔日  ―  shuòrì  ―  the first day of the lunar month

   朔望  ―  shuòwàng  ―  the first and 15th day of every lunar month

3. (literary) north

   朔方  ―  shuòfāng  ―  north

4. ^† early morning
5. ^† beginning

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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• Go-on: さく (saku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku)
• Kun: ついたち (tsuitachi, 朔)

From Middle Chinese 朔 (MC sraewk). Recorded as Middle Korean 삭〮 (sák) (Yale: sak) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

朔

Wikisource

朔 (eumhun 초하루 삭 (choharu sak))

1. hanja form^? of 삭 (“the first day of the lunar month”)

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

朔: Hán Nôm readings: sóc, xóc, xộc

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