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晦

晦

Translingual

Han character

晦 (radical 72 日+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日人田卜 (AOWY), four-corner 68057, composition ⿰日每)

  1. dark, unclear, obscure
  2. night
  3. unlucky, bad luck

References

  • KangXi: page 496, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13960
  • Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1513, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6666

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 晦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (母) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脢 *mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
挴 *mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ
海 *hmlɯːʔ
毐 *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ
呣 *mɯ
拇 *mɯʔ
母 *mɯʔ
胟 *mɯʔ
姆 *mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ
畮 *mɯʔ
踇 *mɯʔ
苺 *mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
莓 *mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
敏 *mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ
鰵 *mrɯŋʔ
慜 *mrɯŋʔ
毋 *ma
梅 *mɯː
酶 *mɯː
鋂 *mɯː
每 *mɯːʔ
毎 *mɯːs
痗 *mɯːs, *hmɯːs
晦 *hmɯːs
誨 *hmɯːs
悔 *hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs
霉 *mrɯl

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 晦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 荒内切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /huʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /huoiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwəjH/
Li
Rong		 /xuᴀiH/
Wang
Li		 /xuɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xuɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 晦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xwojH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m̥ˤək-s/
English last day of a moon; dark

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 晦
Reading # 1/1
No. 9315
Phonetic
component		 母
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*hmɯːs/

Definitions

晦

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Japanese

Kanji

晦

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

晦 • ‎(hoe)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 회 (revised: hoe, McCune-Reischauer: hoe, Yale: hoy)
  • Name (hangeul): 그믐 (revised: geumeum, McCune-Reischauer: kŭmŭm)
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Vietnamese

Han character

晦 (hổi, hối, hói)

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