咲

See also: 笑

咲 U+54B2, 咲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54B2 ← 咱 [U+54B1] CJK Unified Ideographs 咳 → [U+54B3]

Translingual

Han character

咲 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, Cangjie input 口廿大 (RTK) or 難口廿大 (XRTK), composition ⿰口关)

Derived characters

• 𪞄

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 187, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3554
• Dae Jaweon: page 406, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 619, character 3
• Unihan data for U+54B2

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 咲 – see 笑 (“to laugh; to smile; to laugh at; to ridicule; etc.”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as an ancient form of 笑).

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 关 (“to laugh”). It was the original form of 笑, meaning "to laugh." In Japan, it is used to represent the idea of flowers blooming.

Japanese

Shinjitai	咲
Kyūjitai	咲󠄁 咲+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	咲󠄃 咲+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

咲

(Jōyō kanji)

1. blossom

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kun: さく (saku, 咲く, Jōyō)、えむ (emu, 咲む)、わらう (warau, 咲う)^{←わらふ (warafu, 咲ふ, historical)}
• Nanori: さき (saki)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
咲
さき Grade: S
kun'yomi

From the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 咲(さ)く (saku, “to bloom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sa̠kʲi]
• (Tokyo) さき [sáꜜkì] (Atamadaka – [1])

Proper noun

咲(さき) • (Saki) 

1. a female given name

Korean

Hanja

咲 (eum 소 (so))

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Vietnamese

Han character

咲: Hán Nôm readings: tiếu

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