曦

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曦 U+66E6, 曦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66E6
← 曥
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 曧 →

Translingual

Han character

曦 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 日廿土尸 (ATGS), four-corner 68053, composition ⿰日羲)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14253
  • Dae Jaweon: page 872, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1541, character 21
  • Unihan data for U+66E6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 曦
alternative forms 爔
㬢／𮲛
燨
羲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (我) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
莪 *ŋaːl
哦 *ŋaːl
娥 *ŋaːl
峨 *ŋaːl
峩 *ŋaːl
鵝 *ŋaːl
俄 *ŋaːl
蛾 *ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ
睋 *ŋaːl
涐 *ŋaːl
誐 *ŋaːl
硪 *ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ
我 *ŋaːlʔ
騀 *ŋaːlʔ
餓 *ŋaːls
義 *ŋrals
儀 *ŋral
轙 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
檥 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
蟻 *ŋralʔ
艤 *ŋralʔ
礒 *ŋralʔ
羛 *ŋralʔ, *hŋral
議 *ŋrals
犧 *hŋral
曦 *hŋral
羲 *hŋral

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hŋral) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 羲 (OC *hŋral).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 曦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許羈切
Baxter xje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xiɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hjiə̆/
Li
Rong 		/xje/
Wang
Li 		/xǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/xie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hei1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 曦
Reading # 1/1
No. 13058
Phonetic
component 		我
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		犧
Old
Chinese 		/*hŋral/

Definitions

曦

  1. (literary) sunshine; dawn sunlight
  2. Alternative form of 羲 (xī)

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “曦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

曦

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. the sun

Readings

  • Go-on: き (ki)
  • Kan-on: き (ki)
  • Kan’yō-on: ぎ (gi)
  • Kun: ひ (hi, 曦)、ひかり (hikari, 曦)

Korean

Hanja

曦 • (hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune–Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

  1. sunlight
  2. sunshine
  3. early dawn
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