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U+5BB5, 宵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BB5

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order
10 strokes

(Kangxi radical 40, +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十火月 (JFB), four-corner 30227, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 286, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7168
  • Dae Jaweon: page 566, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 932, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5BB5

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sew) : semantic (roof) + phonetic (OC *slew, *slews).

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • siou1 - Chaozhou;
  • siao1 - Shantou, Jieyang, Chaoyang.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter sjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/siaw/
Li
Rong
/siɛu/
Wang
Li
/sĭɛu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
siu1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjew ›
Old
Chinese
/*ew/
English night, evening

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13740
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sew/

Definitions

  1. (literary) night; evening
  2. (archaic) Synonym of (xiǎo, small)

Synonyms

Compounds

Pronunciation 2



Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (to resemble)

Japanese

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]

宵󠄁
+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
宵󠄃
+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
よい
Grade: S
kun'yomi

⟨yo2pi1 → */jəpʲi//joɸi//jowi//joi/

From Old Japanese.

Appears to be derived from a compound, the initial yo is likely from a y- stem cognate with (, evening), while the final i is likely from (hi, day). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Noun

(よい) (yoiよひ (yofi)?

  1. the hours after sunset until midnight, collectively: dusk, evening, and night
    Synonyms: 初夜 (shoya), 夜間 (yakan), (yo, yoru)
  2. the eve of an event, especially of a festival
Derived terms
Proverbs

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
しょう
Grade: S
on'yomi

/seu//ɕeu//ɕoː/

From Middle Chinese (MC sjew).

Affix

(しょう) (shōせう (seu)?

  1. night
  2. time after sunset until midnight
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC sjew). Recorded as Middle Korean (syo) (Yale: syo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (bam so))

  1. hanja form? of (night)

Compounds

References

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

Old Japanese

Etymology

Appears to be derived from a compound, the initial yo2 is likely from a y- stem cognate with (yupu, evening), while the final pi1 is likely from (pi1, day). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

(yo2pi1) (kana よひ)

  1. the hours after sunset until midnight, collectively: dusk, evening, and night

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:宵.

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Japanese: (yoi)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: tiêu

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