曙

曙 U+66D9, 曙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66D9 ← 曘 [U+66D8] CJK Unified Ideographs 曚 → [U+66DA]

Translingual

Han character

曙 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日田中日 (AWLA), four-corner 6606₄, composition ⿰日署)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14220
• Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1538, character 9
• Unihan data for U+66D9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		曙

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
觰	*rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸	*tjaː, *tja
者	*tjaːʔ
堵	*tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭	*tjaːʔ
撦	*l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯	*tʰjaːʔ
闍	*djaː, *taː
奢	*hljaː
鍺	*toːlʔ
都	*taː
醏	*taː
覩	*taːʔ
睹	*taːʔ
暏	*taːʔ
賭	*taːʔ
帾	*taːʔ
楮	*taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠	*daː, *da
瘏	*daː
廜	*daː
鷵	*daː
緒	*ljaʔ
豬	*ta
猪	*ta
瀦	*ta
藸	*ta, *da
櫫	*ta
褚	*taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著	*taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸	*tas, *das
儲	*da
躇	*da
櫧	*tja
藷	*tja, *djas
蠩	*tja
煮	*tjaʔ
渚	*tjaʔ
煑	*tjaʔ
陼	*tjaʔ
翥	*tjas
署	*djas
薯	*djas
曙	*djas
書	*hlja
暑	*hjaʔ
鐯	*taɡ
擆	*taɡ
櫡	*taɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djas): semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 暑 (OC *hjaʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǔ (shu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu⁵ / syu⁵ / syu⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sú / sí / sìr / sír

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shǔ
    • Wade–Giles: shu³
    • Yale: shǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cyu⁵ / syu⁵ / syu⁶
    • Yale: chyúh / syúh / syuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsy⁵ / sy⁵ / sy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: qu⁵ / xu⁵ / xu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyː¹³/, /syː¹³/, /syː²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sú
    • Tâi-lô: sú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suo
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /su⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí
    • Tâi-lô: sí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sie
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìr
    • Tâi-lô: sìr
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sír
    • Tâi-lô: sír
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

• Quanzhou:
  • sú, sír - colloquial variants.

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• Middle Chinese: dzyoH

Rime
Character	曙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	常恕切
Baxter	dzyoH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨʌH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɔH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiɔH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑɨə̆H/
Li Rong	/ʑiɔH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭoH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯woH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djas/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	曙
Reading #	1/1
No.	17011
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	署
Old Chinese	/*djas/

Definitions

曙

1. daybreak; dawn

Compounds

• 一曙
• 一線曙光 / 一线曙光
• 分宵達曙 / 分宵达曙
• 向曙
• 徹曙 / 彻曙
• 戒曙
• 拂曙
• 啟曙 / 启曙
• 昏曙
• 曙光 (shǔguāng)
• 曙光乍現 / 曙光乍现
• 曙天
• 曙影
• 曙後星孤 / 曙后星孤
• 曙斗
• 曙日
• 曙星
• 曙暉 / 曙晖
• 曙更
• 曙月
• 曙河 (shǔhé)
• 曙然
• 曙煙 / 曙烟
• 曙色 (shǔsè)
• 曙華 / 曙华
• 曙角
• 曙鐘 / 曙钟
• 曙雞 / 曙鸡
• 曙霞
• 曙風 / 曙风
• 曙體 / 曙体
• 曙鼓
• 清曙
• 煙曙 / 烟曙
• 爽曙
• 犁曙
• 發曙 / 发曙
• 破曙
• 連宵徹曙 / 连宵彻曙
• 連昏達曙 / 连昏达曙
• 通曙
• 逼曙
• 達曙 / 达曙
• 遲曙 / 迟曙
• 邌曙
• 開曙 / 开曙
• 霞曙

References

• “曙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

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

曙

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. dawn
2. daybreak

Readings

• Go-on: じょ (jo)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: あかつき (akatsuki, 曙)、あけぼの (akebono, 曙)、あける (akeru, 曙ける)
• Nanori: あきら (akira)、あけ (ake)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
曙
あけぼの Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Compound of 明け (ake, “brighten”) +‎ 仄 (hono, “faint”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) あけぼの [àkébónó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [a̠ke̞bo̞no̞]

Noun

曙(あけぼの) • (akebono) 

1. dawn (the time when night fades and the morning faintly brightens)
   • Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

     春(はる)はあけぼの。やうやうしろくなり行く、山(やま)ぎはすこしあかりて、むらさきだちたる雲(くも)のほそくたなびきたる。

     haru wa akebono. yōyō shiroku nariyuku, yamagiwa sukoshi akarite, murasakidachitaru kumo no hosoku tanabikitaru.

     In spring, the dawn – when the slowly paling mountain rim is tinged with red, and wisps of faintly crimson-purple cloud float in the sky

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:明け方

References

• “^▲曙”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 曙 (MC dzyoH). Recorded as Middle Korean 셔〯 (syě) (Yale: sye) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

曙 (eumhun 새벽 서 (saebyeok seo))

1. hanja form^? of 서 (“dawn”)

Compounds

• 서경 (曙景, seogyeong, “a view at dawn”)
• 서광 (曙光, seogwang, “dawn”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [4]

Vietnamese

Han character

曙: Hán Nôm readings: thự

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References

• Nom Foundation