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曉

曉

See also: 晓 and 暁

Translingual

Traditional 曉
Shinjitai 暁
Simplified 晓

Han character

曉 (radical 72 日+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日土土山 (AGGU), four-corner 64011, composition ⿰日堯)

References

  • KangXi: page 500, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14176
  • Dae Jaweon: page 870, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1535, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+66C9

Chinese

trad. 曉
simp. 晓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (垚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撓 *hŋaːw, *rŋaːw, *rnaːwʔ
鐃 *rŋaːw
譊 *rŋaːw
橈 *rŋaːws, *ŋjew
磽 *ŋ̥ʰreːw, *ŋreːws, *ŋ̥ʰeːwʔ
墝 *ŋ̥ʰreːw
穘 *hŋreːw
顤 *hŋreːw, *ŋeːws
燒 *hŋjew, *hŋjaws
饒 *ŋjew, *ŋjaws
蟯 *ŋjew, *ʔŋew
蕘 *ŋjew
襓 *ŋjew
繞 *ŋjewʔ, *ŋjaws
遶 *ŋjewʔ
嬈 *njewʔ, *neːwʔ, *hŋeːws
趬 *ŋ̥ʰew, *ŋ̥ʰews
蹺 *ŋ̥ʰew
翹 *ɡew, *ɡews
澆 *ŋkeːw, *ŋeːws
驍 *ŋkeːw
僥 *kŋeːwʔ, *ŋeːw
堯 *ŋeːw
垚 *ŋeːw
嶢 *ŋeːw
獟 *ŋeːws
膮 *hŋeːw, *hŋeːwʔ
嘵 *hŋeːw
憢 *hŋeːw
曉 *hŋeːwʔ
皢 *hŋeːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hŋeːwʔ) : semantic 日 ‎(“sun”) + phonetic 堯 ‎(OC *ŋeːw).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 曉
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɑu²¹⁴/
Harbin /ɕiau²¹³/
Tianjin /ɕiɑu¹³/
Jinan /ɕiɔ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ɕiɔ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ɕiau⁵³/
Xi'an /ɕiau⁵³/
Xining /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Yinchuan /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕiɔ⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ɕiɔ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕiau⁴²/
Chengdu /ɕiau⁵³/
Guiyang /ɕiao⁴²/
Kunming /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Nanjing /ɕiɔo²¹²/
Hefei /ɕiɔ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiau⁵³/
Pingyao /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Hohhot /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiɔ³⁵/
Suzhou /ɕiæ⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Wenzhou /ɕa³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ɕiɔ³⁵/
Tunxi /ɕio³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕiau⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ɕiaɯ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛu²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /hiau³¹/
Taoyuan /hiɑu³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hiu³⁵/
Nanning /hiu³⁵/
Hong Kong /hiu³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hiau⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hieu³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xiau²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hiau⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hiau²¹³/
Rime
Character 曉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 馨皛切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /heuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /heuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xeuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɛwX/
Li
Rong		 /xeuX/
Wang
Li		 /xieuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xieuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 曉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰˤewʔ/
English understand

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 曉
Reading # 1/1
No. 14699
Phonetic
component		 垚
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 䥵
Old
Chinese		 /*hŋeːwʔ/

Definitions

曉

  1. dawn, daybreak
    破曉 / 破晓  ―  pòxiǎo  ―  dawn, daybreak; to dawn
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  3. to know, to understand, to get
    通曉 / 通晓  ―  tōngxiǎo  ―  to thoroughly understand

References

  • (Min Nan) Governor-General of Taiwan (1931–1932), Ogawa Naoyoshi, editor, 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese and Min Nan), volume 2, Taihoku: 同府 [Dōfu], OCLC 25747241, page 609.

Japanese

Kanji

曉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

曉 • ‎(hyo) (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune-Reischauer hyo, Yale hyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

曉 (hẻo, hểu, hiểu)

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