曰

曰 (radical 73, 曰+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 日 (A) or X日 (XA), four-corner 6010₀, composition ⿴囗一)

1. Kangxi radical #73, ⽈.

• Index:Chinese radical/曰
• 昌, 替, 曷, 曾, 會, 書, 曹, 朁

• Not to be confused with 日, which is generally slimmer and taller, and has a middle stroke that often extends to both sides in non-regular script fonts.

• KangXi: page 502, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14278
• Dae Jaweon: page 872, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1482, character 2
• Unihan data for U+66F0

Historical forms of the character 曰
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)	Libian (compiled in Qing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts	Clerical script

Ideogram (指事) : a mouth (口) with word or breath (一) coming out. Compare 今 and 言, where a small stroke is also used to represent words.

Cognate with 話 (OC *ɡroːds) according to Sagart (1999); if so, it is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwas (“to speak; word”), whence Tibetan གྲོས་སྡུར་བྱེད་པ (gros sdur byed pa, “to consult; to discuss”) (STEDT).

曰

1. ^† to say; to speak

   • 子曰：「溫故而知新，可以為師矣。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子曰：“温故而知新，可以为师矣。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, circa 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zǐ yuē: “Wēn gù ér zhī xīn, kěyǐ wèi shī yǐ.” [Pinyin]

     The Master said, "If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others."

   • 翁笑曰：「平昔不相往還，何由遺魂吾家？」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     翁笑曰：“平昔不相往还，何由遗魂吾家？” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 聊齋志異, 第2卷

     Wēng xiào yuē: “Píng xī bù xiàng wǎng hái, hé yóu yí hún wú jiā?” [Pinyin]

     The old man laughed and said, "In normal days we don't have much of a relation, why would you want to call back the dead's soul in my house?"

2. ^† to be called (the name of)

• “曰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. say

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on: おち (ochi)^{←をち (woti, historical)}
• Kan-on: えつ (etsu)^{←ゑつ (wetu, historical)}
• Kun: いう (iu, 曰う)^{←いふ (ifu, historical)}; いわく (iwaku, 曰く)^{←いはく (ifaku, historical)}; のたばく (notabaku, 曰ばく); のたまう (notamau, 曰う)^{←のたまふ (notamafu, historical)}; のたもう (notamou, 曰う)^{←のたまふ (notamafu, historical)}; のたまわく (notamawaku, 曰く)^{←のたまはく (notamafaku, historical)}; のたまわす (notamawasu, 曰わす)^{←のたまはす (notamafasu, historical)}; のとうぶ (notōbu, 曰ぶ)^{←のたうぶ (notaubu, historical)}

Named as 平日 (hirabi, literally “wide hi”) to distinguish from the 日 (hi, “sun, day”) kanji.

曰 • (wal) (hangeul 왈, revised wal, McCune–Reischauer wal, Yale wal)

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曰: Hán Việt readings: viết (王(vương)伐(phạt)切(thiết))[1][2][3][4][5]
曰: Nôm readings: viết[1][2][4][5][6], vít[1][3][7][4][6], vết[1][2][7], vịt[1][2], vệt[1], vắt[2], vất[7]

1. Hán tự form of viết (“to write”).
2. Nôm form of vít (“wound; scar”).