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昭

昭

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
刀 *taːw
忉 *taːw
鱽 *taːw
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 *tjew) : semantic 日 ‎(“sun”) + phonetic 召 ‎(OC *dews, *djews).

Han character

昭 (radical 72 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日尸竹口 (ASHR), four-corner 67062, composition ⿰日召)

  1. bright, luminous
  2. illustrious

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 493, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13855
  • Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1504, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+662D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 昭

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 昭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 止遙切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciaw/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiɛu/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 昭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyew ›
Old
Chinese		 /*taw/
English bright

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 昭
Reading # 1/1
No. 2127
Phonetic
component		 刀
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 昭
Old
Chinese		 /*tjew/

Definitions

昭

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Japanese

Kanji

昭

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. shining

Readings

Proper noun

昭 ‎(hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

昭 • ‎(so, jo) (hangeul 소, 조, revised so, jo, McCune-Reischauer so, cho, Yale so, co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昭 (chiu, chiêu)

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