照

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See also: 炤
照 U+7167, 照
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7167
← 煦
[U+7166] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 煨 →
[U+7168]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
13 strokes

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

Related characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 照
variant forms 曌
瞾
炤

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
刀 *taːw
忉 *taːw
鱽
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, OC *tjews): semantic 灬 (“fire”) + phonetic 昭 (OC *tjew) – shine the light of a fire on.

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • chiàu - literary;
  • chiò - vernacular.
  • Wu
    • 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
    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[edit]

    照

    1. to shine upon; to illuminate
    2. to reflect; to look (in the mirror)
    3. to contrast; to compare
    4. to notify; to inform
    5. to take care of
    6. to take a photo
    7. sunshine; sunlight
    8. photo; photograph; picture
    9. license; permit
    10. according to; as; in accordance with
    11. regardless; anyway; continue to
    12. towards; to

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 照

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    照

    (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. to illuminate; to shine

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Proper noun[edit]

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

    照 (hiragana てらし, rōmaji Terashi)

    1. A male given name

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

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

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    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    照 (chiếu)

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