昭

昭 U+662D, 昭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-662D ← 昬 [U+662C] CJK Unified Ideographs 昮 → [U+662E]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

昭 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, Cangjie input 日尸竹口 (ASHR), four-corner 6706₂, composition ⿰日召)

Derived characters

• 𡎣, 𣸬, 𧼹, 𭫁, 𤋜, 照

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 493, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13855
• Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1504, character 9
• Unihan data for U+662D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		昭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
刀	*taːw
忉	*taːw
魛	*taːw
舠	*taːw
朷	*taːw, *moːɡ
叨	*tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒	*taːwʔ, *taːws
到	*taːws
菿	*taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀	*deːw
鳭	*rteːw, *teːw
灱	*hreːw
菬	*sdew, *tjewʔ
超	*tʰew
怊	*tʰew, *tʰjew
欩	*tʰew
召	*dews, *djews
昭	*tjew
招	*tjew
鉊	*tjew
沼	*tjewʔ
照	*tjews
詔	*tjews
炤	*tjews
弨	*tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧	*tʰjewʔ
韶	*djew
佋	*djew, *djewʔ
軺	*djew, *lew
玿	*djew
柖	*djew
紹	*djewʔ
袑	*djewʔ
綤	*djewʔ
邵	*djews
劭	*djews
卲	*djews
刁	*teːw
芀	*teːw, *deːw
貂	*teːw
蛁	*teːw
迢	*deːw
苕	*deːw
髫	*deːw
岧	*deːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjew): semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 召 (OC *dews, *djews).

Etymology

照 (OC *tjews, “to shine”) is the exoactive of 昭 (OC *tjew, “bright”) (Schuessler, 2007). Compare with Burmese တောက် (tauk, “bright, brilliant, shining”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): zhāo (zhao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄠ

  (Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): zhǎo

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): ciu¹ / ziu¹

  (Dongguan, Jyutping++): ziu¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): ziau¹

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chêu

  (Hailu, HRS): zhau^ˋ

  (Meixian, Guangdong): zau¹

• Jin (Wiktionary): zau¹
• Northern Min (KCR): ciáu
• Eastern Min (BUC): ciĕu
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zieo¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chiau

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziao¹ / ziou¹

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): jiao¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹tsau / ¹ciau / ⁵ciau / ¹tshau
  • (Jinhua): ¹ciau
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zhau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhao
    • Wade–Giles: chao¹
    • Yale: jāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jau
    • Palladius: чжао (čžao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
  • (Xi'an)
    • Guanzhong Pinyin: zhǎo
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂau²¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ciu¹ / ziu¹
    • Yale: chīu / jīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsiu¹ / dziu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qiu¹ / jiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːu̯⁵⁵/, /t͡siːu̯⁵⁵/

Note: ziu1 - variant.

• • (Dongguan, Guancheng)
    • Jyutping++: ziu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu²¹³/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: ziau¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siau³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: zeu^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zeu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡seu̯²⁴/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: zhau^ˋ
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃau⁵³/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: zau¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sau⁴⁴/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: zau¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡sau¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ciáu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siau⁵⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ciĕu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieu⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zieo¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ca̤u
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieu⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zieo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieu⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiau
    • Tâi-lô: tsiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaw
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siau⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siau³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siau⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡siau⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siau⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziao¹ / ziou¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiau / tsiou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siau³³/, /t͡siou³³/

Note:

• ziao1 - Shantou;
• ziou1 - Chaozhou.

• (Leizhou)
  • Leizhou Pinyin: jiao¹
  • Sinological IPA: /t͡siau³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Jiading, Songjiang, Chongming, Chuansha, Suzhou, Kunshan, Yixing, Changzhou, Jiaxing, Tongxiang, Haining, Haiyan, Deqing, Hangzhou, Xiaoshan, Fuyang, Shaoxing, Cixi)
    • Wugniu: ¹tsau
    • MiniDict: tsau^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tsau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Jiading): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Chongming): /t͡sɔ⁵⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Chuansha): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /t͡sæ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kunshan): /t͡sɔ⁵⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Yixing): /t͡sau⁵⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Changzhou): /t͡saɯ⁵⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Tongxiang): /t͡sɔ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Haining): /t͡sɔ⁵⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Haiyan): /t͡sɔ⁵¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Deqing): /t͡sɔ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /t͡sɔ³³⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiaoshan): /t͡sɒ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Fuyang): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /t͡sɒ⁵²/
    • Sinological IPA (Cixi): /t͡sɔ³²⁴/
  • (Northern: Jingjiang, Ningbo, Zhoushan)
    • Wugniu: ¹ciau
    • MiniDict: ciau^平
    • Sinological IPA (Jingjiang): /t͡ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /t͡ɕiɔ⁵²/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhoushan): /t͡ɕiɔ⁵³/
  • (Northern: Zhoushan)
    • Wugniu: ⁵ciau
    • Sinological IPA (Zhoushan): /t͡ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Northern: Chongming)
    • Wugniu: ¹tshau
    • MiniDict: tshau^平
    • Sinological IPA (Chongming): /t͡sʰɔ⁵⁵/
  • (Jinhua)
    • Wugniu: ¹ciau
    • Sinological IPA (Jinhua): /t͡ɕiɑu³³⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: zhau¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /ʈ͡ʂɒu̯³³/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /t͡sɒu̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyew

Rime
Character	昭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	止遙切
Baxter	tsyew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciaw/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛu/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ziu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*taw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	昭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhāo
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyew ›
Old Chinese	/*taw/
English	bright
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	昭
Reading #	1/1
No.	2127
Phonetic component	刀
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	昭
Old Chinese	/*tjew/

Definitions

昭

1. (literary) bright; luminous
2. obvious; clear
3. (literary) to display; to make clear
4. (literary) light
5. illustrious
6. (historical) the left side position of tablets in ancestral shrines

   Antonym: 穆 (mù)

7. a surname

Compounds

• 仁昭法外
• 光昭
• 劣跡昭著 / 劣迹昭著
• 含冤昭雪
• 哭昭陵
• 天理昭彰
• 天理昭昭
• 天理昭然
• 德業長昭 / 德业长昭
• 惡名昭彰 / 恶名昭彰 (èmíngzhāozhāng)
• 懿範長昭 / 懿范长昭
• 昭代
• 昭儀 / 昭仪 (zhāoyí)
• 昭冤申枉
• 昭告
• 昭君 (Zhāojūn)
• 昭君出塞
• 昭君和番
• 昭君怨
• 昭和 (Zhāohé)
• 昭和草 (zhāohécǎo)
• 昭回 (zhāohuí)
• 昭如日星
• 昭彰 (zhāozhāng)
• 昭披耶河 (Zhāopīyéhé)
• 昭明 (zhāomíng)
• 昭明文選 / 昭明文选
• 昭昭 (zhāozhāo)
• 昭灼
• 昭然 (zhāorán)
• 昭然若揭 (zhāoránruòjiē)
• 昭王墜屨 / 昭王坠屦
• 昭示 (zhāoshì)
• 昭穆
• 昭華 / 昭华
• 昭著 (zhāozhù)
• 昭通 (Zhāotōng)
• 昭關 / 昭关
• 昭陵
• 昭陵六駿 / 昭陵六骏
• 昭陽 / 昭阳 (zhāoyáng)
• 昭陽殿 / 昭阳殿 (Zhāoyáng Diàn)
• 昭雪 (zhāoxuě)
• 昭顯 / 昭显
• 楚昭萍實 / 楚昭萍实
• 沉冤昭雪 (chényuānzhāoxuě)
• 燕昭築臺 / 燕昭筑台
• 眾目昭彰 / 众目昭彰
• 罪惡昭著 / 罪恶昭著 (zuì'èzhāozhù)
• 臭名昭彰
• 臭名昭著 (chòumíngzhāozhù)
• 跌宕昭彰
• 道範長昭 / 道范长昭
• 鄭昭宋聾 / 郑昭宋聋

Japanese

Kanji

昭

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka, 昭らか)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)、いか (ika)、かず (kazu)、てる (teru)、はる (haru)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
昭
しょう Grade: 3
on'yomi

/seu/ → /ɕeu/ → /ɕʲoː/

From Middle Chinese 昭 (MC tsyew).

Affix

昭(しょう) • (shō) ^{←せう (seu)?}

1. bright
2. enlightened, glorious

Derived terms

• 昭(しょう)昭(しょう) (shōshō)
• 昭(しょう)然(ぜん) (shōzen)
• 昭(しょう)代(だい) (shōdai)
• 昭(しょう)穆(ぼく) (shōboku)
• 昭(しょう)和(わ) (Shōwa)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
昭
あき(ら) Grade: 3
nanori

Nominalization of the stem of adjective 明らか (akiraka, “clear, visible”).

Proper noun

昭(あきら) • (Akira) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

昭 • (so, jo) (hangeul 소, 조, revised so, jo, McCune–Reischauer so, cho, Yale so, co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昭: Hán Việt readings: chiêu, chiu
昭: Nôm readings: chiêu, chiếu, chiu

1. chữ Nôm form of chiêu (“(obsolete, of a direction) left”)
   • 1774, “南昌女子傳 [Nam Xương nữ tử truyện, The Story of the Woman in Nam Xương]”, in 新編傳奇漫錄增補解音集註 [Tân biên Truyền kỳ mạn lục tăng bổ giải âm tập chú, Newly Edited Collection of Truyền kỳ mạn lục with Supplemented Annotations, Phonetic Explanations, and Collected Notes]‎^[1], volume 4, page 3a:

     几昭𡧄庄羅拯𠱤𠸂哭沙渃𪾺。

     Kẻ chiêu đăm chăng là chẳng sùi sụt khóc sa nước mắt.

     Every one left and right, all sobbed and wept, their tears falling down.