曜

曜 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日尸一土 (ASMG), four-corner 6701₄, composition ⿰日翟)

• 𫞂

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14227
• Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1540, character 5
• Unihan data for U+66DC

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lewɢs): semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 翟 (OC *r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lewk (“to shine, flash”); cognate with Tibetan གློག (glog, “lightning”), Burmese လက် (lak, “to flash, scintillate”) (STEDT).

Within Sinitic, compare:

• 爚 (OC *hljowɢ, *lowɢ, “to shine, melt”)
• 的 (OC *pleːwɢ, “bright, brilliant; to mark in a target”)
• 灼 (OC *pljewɢ, “to burn; brilliant; to illuminate”)
• 爍 (OC *qʰljawɢ, “to melt, fuse, shine”)
• 霍 (OC *qʰʷaːɡ, “quickly, suddenly; lightning”)
• 耀 (OC *lewɢs), 燿 (OC *lewɢs, “to shine, gleam”)

曜

1. glorious (as the sun)
2. sunlight; daylight
3. to shine; to illuminate
4. one of the seven so-called planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn)

• (ryakuji) 𫞂 [U+2B782]

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. shine
2. weekday
3. day (of the week)

• Go-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)^{←えう (eu, historical)←𛀁う (yeu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)^{←えう (eu, historical)←𛀁う (yeu, ancient)}
• Kun: かがやく (kagayaku, 曜く)、ひかり (hikari, 曜)、ひかる (hikaru, 曜る)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)、かぐや (kaguya)、てらす (terasu)、てる (teru)、ひかり (hikari)

/jieu/ → /jeu/ → /jəː/ → /joː/

From Middle Chinese 曜 (MC yewH).

曜(よう) • (yō) ^{←えう (eu)?}

1. sun, moon and stars
2. day of week

Used for the days of the week, for example 日曜 (nichiyō) or 日曜日 (nichiyōbi, “Sunday”).

曜(よう) • (Yō) ^{←えう (Eu)?}

1. a female given name

From Middle Chinese 曜 (MC yewH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [jo]
• Phonetic hangul: [요]

Wikisource

曜 (eumhun 빛날 요 (binnal yo))

1. hanja form^? of 요 (“shiny”)
2. hanja form^? of 요 (“day of the week (in this case, usually used with 일 (日, il))”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

曜: Hán Nôm readings: diệu

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