照

See also: 炤

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjews): semantic 灬 ‎(“fire”) + phonetic 昭 ‎(OC *tjew) – shine the light of a fire on.

Han character

照 (radical 86 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日口火 (ARF), four-corner 6733₆, composition ⿱昭灬)

1. shine, illumine, reflect

References

• KangXi: page 677, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19226
• Dae Jaweon: page 1089, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2221, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7167

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		照

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhào (zhao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ziu³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): cheu
• Min Nan (POJ): chiàu / chiò

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhào
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jaw
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ziu³
    • Yale: jiu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dziu³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: cheu
    • Hakka Romanization System: zeu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zeu⁴
    • IPA: /t͡se̯u⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiàu / chiò
    • Tâi-lô: tsiàu / tsiò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaux, cioix
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiaʊ¹¹/, /t͡ɕio¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiaʊ²¹/, /t͡ɕiɤ²¹/
    • Note: chiàu - literary; chiò - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiᴇu^H/▼

Rime
Character	照
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之少切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciawH/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛuH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*taw-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjews/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	照
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhào
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyewH ›
Old Chinese	/*taw-s/
English	shine on
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	照
Reading #	1/1
No.	2132
Phonetic component	刀
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	沼
Old Chinese	/*tjews/

Definitions

照

1. to shine upon; to illuminate

   • 雪白明月照在大地 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     From: 伍佰, 挪威的森林

     Xuěbái míngyuè zhào zài dàdì [Pinyin]

     The bright moon white as snow illuminates the earth

2. according to; as; in accordance with
3. to take a photo
4. (Cantonese) regardless; anyway; continue to

Compounds

• 照付
• 照例 (zhàolì)
• 照壁
• 照妖鏡／照妖镜
• 照實／照实
• 照射 (zhàoshè)
• 照常 (zhàocháng)
• 照應／照应 (zhàoyìng)
• 照抄
• 照排
• 照搬
• 照料 (zhàoliào)
• 照明 (zhàomíng)
• 照明彈／照明弹
• 照映
• 照會／照会 (zhàohuì)

• 照本宣科
• 照樣／照样 (zhàoyàng)
• 照樣兒／照样儿
• 照樹／照树
• 照片 (zhàopiàn)
• 照片兒／照片儿 (zhàopiānr)
• 照片子
• 照理
• 照發／照发
• 照直
• 照相 (zhàoxiàng)
• 照相彈／照相弹
• 照相機／照相机 (zhàoxiàngjī)
• 照相版
• 照相紙／照相纸
• 照看

• 照眼
• 照章
• 照等
• 照管
• 照耀 (zhàoyào)
• 照臨／照临
• 照舊／照旧 (zhàojiù)
• 照葫蘆畫瓢／照葫芦画瓢
• 照補／照补
• 照說／照说
• 照講／照讲
• 照護／照护 (zhàohù)
• 照貓畫虎／照猫画虎
• 照辦／照办 (zhàobàn)
• 照面兒／照面儿
• 照顧／照顾 (zhàogù)

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Japanese

Kanji

照

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. illumination, shining

Readings

• Goon: しょう (shō), せう (seu) (historical)
• Kan’on: しょう (shō), せう (seu) (historical)
• Kun: て.る (照る, te.ru), て.り (照り, te.ri), てり (teri), て.らす (照らす, te.rasu), て.らし (照らし, te.rashi), てらし (terashi), て.れる (照れる, te.reru), て.れ (照れ, te.re), てれ (tere)

Compounds

• 照会
• 照合
• 照射
• 照準
• 照明

Proper noun

Kanji in this term
照
てらし Grade: 4
kun'yomi

照 ‎(hiragana てらし, romaji Terashi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

照 • ‎(jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

照 (chiếu)

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