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晝
晝
See also: 昼
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 昼 | 
|---|---|
| Simplified | 昼 | 
| Traditional | 晝 | 
Han character
晝 (radical 72 日+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中土日一 (LGAM), four-corner 50106, composition ⿱書一)
References
- KangXi: page 495, character 43
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13948
- Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1515, character 2
- Unihan data for U+665D
Chinese
| trad. | 晝 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 昼 | |
Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 畫 (“draw”) + 日 (“sun”) (replace 田 with 日)
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˋ
- Wade-Giles: chou4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jow
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
 
 
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
-  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+- Jyutping: zau3
- Yale: jau
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzau3
- IPA (key): /t͡sɐu̯³³/
 
 
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
-  Hakka
-  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chu
- Hakka Romanization System: zu
- Hagfa Pinyim: zu4
- IPA: /t͡su⁵⁵/
 
 
-  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
-  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiù
- Tâi-lô: tiù
- Phofsit Daibuun: diux
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tiu⁴¹/
 
-  (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tàu
- Tâi-lô: tàu
- Phofsit Daibuun: daux
- IPA (Taipei): /taʊ¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /taʊ²¹/
- IPA (Xiamen): /taʊ²¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /taʊ²¹/
- Note: tiù - literary; tàu - vernacular.
 
 
-  (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 晝 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 知 (9) | 
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) | 
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 陟救切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʈɨuH/ | 
| Pan Wuyun | /ʈiuH/ | 
| Shao Rongfen | /ȶiəuH/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʈuwH/ | 
| Li Rong | /ȶiuH/ | 
| Wang Li | /ȶĭəuH/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren | /ȶi̯ə̯uH/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhòu | 
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 晝 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhòu | 
| Middle Chinese | ‹ trjuwH › | 
| Old Chinese | /*truk-s/ | 
| English | daytime | 
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: 					* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 晝 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 17554 | 
| Phonetic component | 晝 | 
| Rime group | 幽 | 
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 
| Corresponding MC rime | 晝 | 
| Old Chinese | /*tus/ | 
Definitions
晝
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
晝
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 昼)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
晝 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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