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昨

昨

See also: 咋

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

References

  • KangXi: page 493, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13847
  • Dae Jaweon: page 857, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1502, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6628

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 昨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 昨
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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 昨
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 鐸 (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 在各切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zak̚/
Li
Rong		 /d͡zɑk̚/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zuó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 昨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zuó
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]ˤak/
English yesterday

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 昨
Reading # 1/1
No. 16664
Phonetic
component		 乍
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 昨
Old
Chinese		 /*zaːɡ/

Definitions

昨

  1. yesterday
  2. in former times, past

Compounds

  • 一昨
  • 今是昨非
  • 昨來／昨来
  • 昨兒／昨儿 (zuór)

Japanese

Kanji

昨

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

昨 (tạc)

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