曉

See also 晓, and 暁

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 堯

Han character

曉 (radical 72 日+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日土土山 (AGGU), four-corner 6401₁)

1. dawn, daybreak
2. clear, explicit

References

• KangXi: page 500, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14176
• Dae Jaweon: page 870, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1535, character 1
• Unihan data for U+66C9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

曉 (simplified 晓, Yale hiu2)

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Japanese

Kanji

曉

Readings

• On: ぎょう (gyō), きょう (kyō)
• Kun: あかつき (akatsuki), さとる (satoru)

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Korean

Hanja

曉 (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune-Reischauer hyo, Yale hyo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

曉 (simplified 晓, pinyin xiǎo (xiao3), Wade-Giles hsiao³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

曉 (*xěu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

曉 (hiểu, hẻo, hểu)