夕

See also: タ
夕 U+5915, 夕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5915
← 夔
[U+5914] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 外 →
[U+5916]

Translingual
Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

夕 (radical 36, 夕+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈 (NI), four-corner 27200, composition ⿴𠂊丶)

  1. Kangxi radical #36, ⼣.

Derived characters

References

Wikidata

  • KangXi: page 246, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5749
  • Dae Jaweon: page 487, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 859, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5915

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 夕

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 夕
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (夕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
夕 *ljaːɡ
汐 *ljaːɡ
穸 *ljaːɡ

Pictogram (象形) — moon crescent.

Pronunciation
Note:
  • si̍t/se̍k - literary;
  • sia̍h/siā - vernacular.
Rime
Character 夕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 祥易切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ziᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ziɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ziæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ziajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ziɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /zĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /zi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xí
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 夕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zjek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-ɢAk/
English evening, night

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 夕
Reading # 1/1
No. 13227
Phonetic
component		 夕
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 席
Old
Chinese		 /*ljaːɡ/

Definitions

夕

  1. night; evening; dusk

Compounds
Derived terms from 夕

Japanese

Kanji
夕

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. evening

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
夕
ゆう
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

夕 (hiragana ゆう, rōmaji yū, historical hiragana ゆふ)

  1. evening

See also

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology 1

Hanja

夕 (eumhun 저녁 석 (jeonyeok seok))

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Etymology 2

Hanja

夕 (eumhun 한 움큼 사 (han umkeum sa))

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Okinawan

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夕 (yū).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /juː/

Kanji

夕

Noun

夕 (hiragana ゆー, romaji yū)

  1. night, evening

Derived terms
Derived terms

Vietnamese

Han character

夕 (tịch)

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