曰

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

1. Kangxi radical #73, ⽈.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/曰
• 抇, 汩, 㫗, 𡿯, 𣅕, 𣌰, 𧴴, 𬵅, 昌, 㫚, 𣆩, 㑹, 暜, 魯, 䖜, 曆

• 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. In some handwritten forms, the horizontal and vertical stroke at the upper left corner are not connected because of the glyph origin.

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

Ideogram (指事): a mouth (口) with word or breath (一) coming out. Compare 言, in which a small stroke on top of a bifurcated tongue (舌) is also used to represent words; see also 四 and 只. Unrelated to 甘.

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. (literary or Shuangfeng Xiang) 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, c. 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. (literary) to be called (the name of)

   • 帝高陽之苗裔兮，朕皇考曰伯庸。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     帝高阳之苗裔兮，朕皇考曰伯庸。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Dì Gāoyáng zhī miáoyì xī, zhèn huángkǎo yuē Bóyōng. [Pinyin]

     Springing forth from the seeds of King Gaoyang
     My glorious late Father was styled Boyong.

• “曰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(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, 曰ふ, historical)}、いわく (iwaku, 曰く)^{←いはく (ifaku, 曰く, historical)}、のたばく (notabaku, 曰ばく)、のたまう (notamau, 曰う)^{←のたまふ (notamafu, 曰ふ, historical)}、のたもう (notamou, 曰う)^{←のたまふ (notamafu, 曰ふ, historical)}、のたまわく (notamawaku, 曰く)^{←のたまはく (notamafaku, 曰く, historical)}、のたまわす (notamawasu, 曰わす)^{←のたまはす (notamafasu, 曰はす, historical)}、のとうぶ (notōbu, 曰ぶ)^{←のたうぶ (notaubu, 曰ぶ, historical)}

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

From Middle Chinese 曰 (MC hjwot).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [wa̠ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [왈]

曰 (eumhun 가로 왈 (garo wal))

1. hanja form^? of 왈 (“...said (denoting the creator of a quote)”) [adverb]

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