朝

朝 (radical 74, 月+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十十月 (JJB), four-corner 4742₀, composition ⿰龺月)

• 嘲 潮 謿 廟

• KangXi: page 506, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14374
• Dae Jaweon: page 885, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2084, character 8
• Unihan data for U+671D

In the oracle bone script, it was an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 2 or 4 屮 (“grass”) + 日 (“sun”) + 月 (“moon”) – the sun rising above the grass while the waning moon is still in the sky – the morning.

In the bronze script, it was a compound of 𠦝 and a pictograph of a river (川 or 水) – this is the original form of 潮 (OC *r'ew, “tide”). The river glyph may be a corruption of 月 due to association with tides. Chi (2010) considers such forms to be phono-semantic (形聲) , where 𠦝 is the abbreviated form of the phonetic 朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew). In the late Western Zhou forms, 𠦝 is corrupted into 車.

In the stone drum inscriptions (石鼓文), 㫃 is added (attached to 車), and the river glyph is replaced with 舟 (OC *tjɯw), which acts as a phonetic component; the small seal script likely inherits from this form. Shuowen interprets the fused component of 𠦝 and 㫃 as a semantic component 倝 (“dawn”). The 舟 component is also seen in the bamboo and wooden slips of the Warring States period.

In the clerical script, 舟 is reverted to 月; it is unclear whether this is a remnant from 月 in the oracle bone script or a corruption of 舟 (as in 朕 < 𦩎). The current form is essentially inherited from the clerical script.

“Morning” > “perform the morning ceremony” > “to go/come to court; to have an audience”. Derivative: 潮 (OC *r'ew, “morning tide”).

Perhaps related to Thai เพรา (prao, “morning”) (Manomaivibool, 1975).

朝

1. morning

   朝夕  ―  zhāoxī  ―  morning and evening; all the time

2. breakfast
3. moment; short period
4. daytime; day; full day
5. active; energetic; lively
6. A surname​.

朝

1. (historical) to wish elders or seniors good health; to visit (a senior person)
2. (historical) to have an audience with the king or emperor; to perform the morning ceremony; to go to court
3. to make a pilgrimage to; to pay homage to
4. to assemble; to call; to gather
5. imperial court
6. dynasty (line of rulers)
7. emperor's reign; period ruled by a particular emperor or king
8. government; imperial government
9. affairs of the state
10. (historical) courtier class
11. (Huizhou) paternal grandfather
12. towards; to; on; facing

    朝前看  ―  cháo qián kàn  ―  look ahead [lit. look to the front]

13. Short for 朝鮮／朝鲜 (Cháoxiǎn, “North Korea; Korea”).

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. morning
2. dynasty; regime
3. epoch; period
4. Korea; (more specifically) North Korea

• Go-on: ちょう (chō, Jōyō)^{←てう (teu, historical)}; じょう (jō)^{←でう (deu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょう (chō, Jōyō)^{←てう (teu, historical)}
• Kun: あさ (asa, 朝, Jōyō); あした (ashita, 朝)
• Nanori: あ (a); あそ (aso); ささ (sasa); ちか (chika); とも (tomo)

Historically a day was split into two halves:

• afternoon cycle: 朝 (あさ) (asa), 昼 (ひる) (hiru), 夕 (ゆう) (yū)
• evening cycle: 夕 (ゆう)べ (yūbe), 宵 (よい) (yoi), 夜 (よ)中 (なか) (yonaka), 暁 (あかつき) (akatsuki), 朝 (あした) (ashita)

While asa and ashita represent the same time period, asa was associated with beginning of the afternoon and ashita was associated with the end of the night. Both terms share an initial as- and are likely etymologically related.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あ​さ [áꜜsà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [a̠sa̠]
  • (Kyoto) あさ [àsáꜜ][3]

朝 (hiragana あさ, rōmaji asa)

1. morning

Historically a day was split into two halves:

• afternoon cycle: 朝 (あさ) (asa), 昼 (ひる) (hiru), 夕 (ゆう) (yū)
• evening cycle: 夕 (ゆう)べ (yūbe), 宵 (よい) (yoi), 夜 (よ)中 (なか) (yonaka), 暁 (あかつき) (akatsuki), 朝 (あした) (ashita)

While asa and ashita represent the same time period, asa was associated with beginning of the afternoon and ashita was associated with the end of the night. Both terms share an initial as- and are likely etymologically related.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あした​ [àshítáꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [a̠ɕita̠]
  • (Kyoto) あした [áshítá][4]

• 明日

朝 (hiragana あした, rōmaji ashita)

1. morning

The spelling 明日 is much more common in modern Japanese.

1. dynasty

   ブルボン朝 (ちょう)

   Burubon-chō

   the Bourbon Dynasty

朝 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

1. morning, day

   조식 (朝食, josig) — breakfast

2. dynasty, imperial court

   조선 (朝鮮, joseon) — Joseon

   왕조 (王朝, wangjo) — dynasty

朝: Hán Nôm readings: triều, chầu, chào, tràu, trều, triêu, chiều, giàu, giầu, trào

1. Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 朝 (“to meet; to meet a senior person; to attend the emperor's audience”; SV: triều).
2. Related to chầu (“to attend an audience; to attend upon (in design)”). (Nguyễn Văn Khang. Từ ngoại lai trong tiếng Việt, 2007)

• Nôm: chào, chầu, chiều, chìu, dèo, giàu, trào, trèo, triêu, triều

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville