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曜

曜

See also: 耀

Translingual

Japanese stroke order

Han character

曜 (radical 72 日+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日尸一土 (ASMG), four-corner 67014, composition ⿰日翟)

  1. glorious (as the sun)
  2. daylight, sunlight
  3. one of the seven so-called planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn)

Related characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 501, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14227
  • Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1540, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+66DC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 曜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (翟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
櫂 *r'eːwɢs
濯 *r'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
耀 *lewɢs
曜 *lewɢs
燿 *lewɢs
糶 *l̥ʰeːwɢs
粜 *l̥ʰeːwɢs
嬥 *l'eːw, *l'eːwʔ, *l'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
藋 *l'eːwɢs
躍 *lewɢ
戳 *r'eːwɢ
擢 *r'eːwɢ
蠗 *r'eːwɢ
鸐 *r'eːwɢ
翟 *r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
趯 *l̥ʰeːwɢ
籊 *l̥ʰeːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
糴 *l'eːwɢ
䊮 *l'eːwɢ

日 ‎(“sun”) + 翟; composed of the sun 日 and the wings 羽 of a bird 隹 (翟). As in: the sun flying by on the wings of a bird. This signifies a day of the week.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 曜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 弋照切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /jæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jiawH/
Li
Rong		 /iɛuH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 曜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yewH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lewk-s/
English shine

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 曜
Reading # 1/1
No. 2212
Phonetic
component		 翟
Rime
group		 豹
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 燿
Old
Chinese		 /*lewɢs/

Definitions

曜

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Compounds

  • 七曜 (qīyào)
  • 九曜
  • 乾曜／干曜
  • 兩曜／两曜
  • 劉曜／刘曜
  • 吐曜
  • 土曜
  • 惡曜／恶曜

Japanese

Ryakuji for 曜.

Kanji

曜

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. weekday

Readings

Alternative forms

  • 𫞂 [U+2B782] (ryakuji)

Usage notes

Used for the days of the week, for example 日曜 (nichiyō) or 日曜日 (nichiyōbi) = Sunday.

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

曜 • ‎(yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

  1. shiny
  2. weekday (In this case, usually used with 日)

compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

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