旭

See also: 旯 and 旮

Translingual

Han character

旭 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 大弓日 (KNA), four-corner 4601₀, composition ⿺九日)

Derived characters

• 𮎴, 𢬐, 𣑢, 𪺬, 𫀯, 𮡵, 𬲑, 𫘲

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 489, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13747
• Dae Jaweon: page 851, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1485, character 4
• Unihan data for U+65ED

---

Chinese

simp. and trad.		旭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 旭
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
尻	*kʰuː
訄	*kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓	*qʰruː
鳩	*ku
勼	*ku
九	*kuʔ
究	*kus
仇	*ɡu
鼽	*ɡu
犰	*ɡu
叴	*ɡu
厹	*ɡu
頄	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹	*ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏	*ɡu
訅	*ɡu
釚	*ɡu
肍	*ɡu
軌	*kʷrɯwʔ
宄	*kʷrɯwʔ
氿	*kʷrɯwʔ
匭	*kʷrɯwʔ
泦	*kuɡ
旭	*qʰʷoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷoɡ) : phonetic 九 (OC *kuʔ) + semantic 日 (“sun”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 旭

1. rising sun
2. brilliant; radiant

See also

• 日出 (rìchū, “sunrise”)
• 曉／晓 (xiǎo, “daybreak”)

---

Japanese

Kanji

旭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. rising sun

Readings

• Go-on: こく (koku)
• Kan-on: きょく (kyoku)
• Kun: あさひ (asahi, 旭); あき (aki); てる (teru); あきら (akira)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
旭
あさひ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 旭 – see the following entry.

【朝日あさひ】 [noun] [from 712] rising sun, morning sun [proper noun] a surname Alternative spelling 旭日

(This term, 旭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Proper noun

旭(あきら) or 旭(proper) • (akira or proper) [[Category:Japanese
|あきら]]

1. a male given name

旭(あさひ) or 旭(proper) • (asahi or proper) [[Category:Japanese
|あさひ]]

1. a place name, such as that of Asahi City in Chiba Prefecture

---

Korean

Hanja

旭 • (uk) (hangeul 욱, revised uk, McCune–Reischauer uk, Yale wuk)

1. rising sun
2. brilliance
3. radiant

---

Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 旭 (húc)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Nom Foundation