曜

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See also: 燿 and 耀
曜 U+66DC, 曜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66DC
← 曛
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 曝 →

Translingual

Stroke order (Japan)
18 strokes

Han character

曜 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日尸一土 (ASMG), four-corner 67014, composition ⿰日翟)

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14227
  • Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1540, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+66DC

Chinese

trad. 曜
simp. # 曜
2nd round simp. 𭀦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (翟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
櫂 *r'eːwɢs
濯 *r'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
耀 *lewɢs
曜 *lewɢs
燿 *lewɢs
糶 *l̥ʰeːwɢs
粜 *l̥ʰeːwɢs
嬥 *l'eːw, *l'eːwʔ, *l'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
藋 *l'eːwɢs
躍 *lewɢ
戳 *r'eːwɢ
擢 *r'eːwɢ
蠗 *r'eːwɢ
鸐 *r'eːwɢ
翟 *r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
趯 *l̥ʰeːwɢ
籊 *l̥ʰeːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
糴 *l'eːwɢ
䊮 *l'eːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lewɢs) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 翟 (OC *r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *glwak (“to shine, flash”); cognate with Tibetan གློག (glog, “lightning”), Burmese လက် (lak, “to flash, scintillate”) (STEDT).

Within Sinitic, compare:

  • 爚 (OC *hljowɢ, *lowɢ, “to shine, melt”)
  • 的 (OC *pleːwɢ, “bright, brilliant; to mark in a target”)
  • 灼 (OC *pljewɢ, “to burn; brilliant; to illuminate”)
  • 爍 (OC *qʰljawɢ, “to melt, fuse, shine”)
  • 霍 (OC *qʰʷaːɡ, “quickly, suddenly; lightning”)
  • 耀 (OC *lewɢs), 燿 (OC *lewɢs, “to shine, gleam”)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 曜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 弋照切
Baxter yewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/jæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/jiawH/
Li
Rong 		/iɛuH/
Wang
Li 		/jĭɛuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/i̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jiu6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 曜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yewH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*lewk-s/
English shine

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 曜
Reading # 1/1
No. 2212
Phonetic
component 		翟
Rime
group 		豹
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		燿
Old
Chinese 		/*lewɢs/

Definitions

曜

  1. glorious (as the sun)
  2. sunlight; daylight
  3. to shine; to illuminate
  4. one of the seven so-called planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn)

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 曜
Kyūjitai
[1][2]
曜󠄁
曜+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
曜󠄃
曜+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Alternative forms

Kanji

曜

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. shine
  2. weekday
  3. day (of the week)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
曜
よう
Grade: 2
on'yomi

/jieu/ → /jeu/ → /jəː/ → /joː/

From Middle Chinese 曜 (MC yewH).

Affix

曜(よう) • (yō) ←えう (eu)?

  1. sun, moon and stars
  2. day of week

Usage notes

Used for the days of the week, for example 日曜 (nichiyō) or 日曜日 (nichiyōbi, “Sunday”).

Derived terms

Compounds

Proper noun

曜(よう) • (Yō) ←えう (Eu)?

  1. a female given name

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1077 (paper), page 589 (digital)
  2. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 651 (paper), page 338 (digital)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 曜 (MC yewH).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

曜 (eumhun 빛날 요 (binnal yo))

  1. hanja form? of 요 (“shiny”)
  2. hanja form? of 요 (“day of the week (in this case, usually used with 일 (日, il))”)

Compounds

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.

Vietnamese

Han character

曜: Hán Nôm readings: diệu

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