宵

Translingual

Han character

宵 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十火月 (JFB), four-corner 3022₇, composition ⿱宀肖)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 286, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7168
• Dae Jaweon: page 566, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 932, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5BB5

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Chinese

trad.		宵
simp. #		宵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 宵
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (肖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
梢	*sreːw
捎	*sreːw, *sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘	*sreːw, *slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸	*sreːw, *sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹	*sreːw, *sew
綃	*sreːw, *sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	*sreːw, *sew
娋	*sreːw, *sreːws
稍	*sreːws
哨	*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱	*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消	*sew
宵	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖	*slew, *slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙	*l'ewʔ
箾	*seːw, *sleːw
踃	*seːw
削	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 宵

1. night, evening

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

宵

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. evening (after sunset)

Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō, Jōyō)
• Kun: よい (yoi, 宵, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

宵 • (so) (hangeul 소, McCune–Reischauer so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 宵 (tiêu)

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