曜

See also 耀

Translingual

Japanese stroke order

Etymology

日 (“sun”) + 翟; composed of the sun 日 and the wings 羽 of a bird 隹 (翟). As in: the sun flying by on the wings of a bird. This signifies a day of the week.

Han character

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

1. glorious, as sun
2. daylight, sunlight

Related characters

• 躍, 擢; 掉, 的 (cognate characters)

Descendants

• 𫞂

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

曜 (Yale yiu6)

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Japanese

Ryakuji for 曜.

Kanji

曜 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji); Ryakuji: 𫞂 (U+2B782)

Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: ひかり (hikari), かがやく (kagayaku)

• used for the days of the week, for example 日曜 (nichiyō) or 日曜日 (nichiyōbi) = Sunday

Compounds

• 曜威
• 曜霊
• 曜日
• 日曜, 日曜日
• 月曜, 月曜日
• 火曜, 火曜日
• 水曜, 水曜日
• 木曜, 木曜日
• 金曜, 金曜日
• 土曜, 土曜日

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Korean

Hanja

曜 (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

曜 (pinyin yào (yao4), Wade-Giles yao⁴)

Compounds

• 耀武扬威
• 耀眼

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Vietnamese

Han character

曜 (diệu)