昨

See also: 咋

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

昨 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日人尸 (AOS), four-corner 6801₁, composition ⿰日乍)

Derived characters

• 葃

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 493, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13847
• Dae Jaweon: page 857, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1502, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6628

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		昨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 昨
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
作	*ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡ
鲊	*ʔsraːʔ
痄	*ʔsraːʔ
厏	*ʔsraːʔ, *zraːʔ
詐	*ʔsraːɡs
咋	*ʔsraːɡs, *zraːɡ, *ʔsreːɡ
笮	*ʔsraːɡs, *zaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
榨	*ʔsraːɡs
炸	*ʔr'aːɡs, *zreːb
乍	*zraːɡs
拃	*ʔsraːnʔ
酢	*sʰaːɡs, *zaːɡ
祚	*zaːɡs
胙	*zaːɡs
阼	*zaːɡs
飵	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
秨	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
迮	*ʔsaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
柞	*ʔsaːɡ, *zaːɡ
昨	*zaːɡ
怍	*zaːɡ
砟	*zaːɡ
莋	*zaːɡ
岝	*zaːɡ, *zraːɡ
鈼	*zaːɡ
筰	*zaːɡ
葃	*zaːɡ, *zreːɡ, *zaɡ
舴	*ʔr'aːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
窄	*ʔsraːɡ
蚱	*ʔsraːɡ
齚	*zraːɡ
泎	*zraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zaːɡ) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 乍 (OC *zraːɡs).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 昨

1. yesterday
2. in former times; past

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Japanese

Kanji

昨

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. yesterday; last, past (day, week, month, year, etc.)

Readings

• Go-on: ざく (zaku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku, Jōyō)
• Kun: きのう (kinō, 昨)

Compounds

• 昨日(きのう) (kinō): yesterday
• 昨(さく)週(しゅう) (sakushū): last week
• 昨(さく)月(げつ) (sakugetsu): last month
• 昨(さく)年(ねん) (sakunen): last year
• 昨(さく)春(しゅん) (sakushun): last spring
• 昨(さく)夏(なつ) (sakunatsu): last summer
• 昨(さく)秋(しゅう) (sakushū): last autumn
• 昨(さく)冬(とう) (sakutō): last winter

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Korean

Hanja

昨 • (jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 昨 (tạc)

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