曦

曦

曦 U+66E6, 曦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66E6 ← 曥 [U+66E5] CJK Unified Ideographs 曧 → [U+66E7]

Translingual

Han character

曦 (radical 72, 日+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 日廿土尸 (ATGS), four-corner 6805₃, composition ⿰日羲)

References

• KangXi: page 501, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14253
• Dae Jaweon: page 872, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1541, character 21
• Unihan data for U+66E6

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		曦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (我) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
莪	*ŋaːl
哦	*ŋaːl
娥	*ŋaːl
峨	*ŋaːl
峩	*ŋaːl
鵝	*ŋaːl
俄	*ŋaːl
蛾	*ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ
睋	*ŋaːl
涐	*ŋaːl
誐	*ŋaːl
硪	*ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ
我	*ŋaːlʔ
騀	*ŋaːlʔ
餓	*ŋaːls
義	*ŋrals
儀	*ŋral
轙	*ŋral, *ŋralʔ
檥	*ŋral, *ŋralʔ
蟻	*ŋralʔ
艤	*ŋralʔ
礒	*ŋralʔ
羛	*ŋralʔ, *hŋral
議	*ŋrals
犧	*hŋral
曦	*hŋral
羲	*hŋral

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hŋral) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 羲 (OC *hŋral).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hi¹
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade–Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hei¹
    • Yale: hēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi¹
    • IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: hi¹
    • IPA: /çi⁴⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hi
    • Tâi-lô: hi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hi³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hi⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hi¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hi
    • IPA ^(key): /hi³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /hˠiᴇ/▼

Rime
Character	曦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	許羈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/xiɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjiə̆/
Li Rong	/xje/
Wang Li	/xǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/xie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*hŋral/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	曦
Reading #	1/1
No.	13058
Phonetic component	我
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	犧
Old Chinese	/*hŋral/

Definitions

曦

1. (literary)sunshine; dawn sunlight
2. early dawn (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

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Japanese

Kanji

曦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. the sun

Readings

• On (unclassified): ぎ (gi), き (ki)
• Kun: ひ (hi), ひかり (hikari)

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Korean

Hanja

曦 • (hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune–Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

1. sunlight
2. sunshine
3. early dawn