旭

See also: 旯 and 旮

旭 U+65ED, 旭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65ED ← 旬 [U+65EC] CJK Unified Ideographs 旮 → [U+65EE]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

旭 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 大弓日 (KNA), four-corner 4601₀, composition ⿺九日)

Derived characters

• 𮎴, 𢬐, 𣑢, 𪺬, 𫀯, 𮡵, 𬲑, 𫘲

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 489, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13747
• Dae Jaweon: page 851, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1485, character 4
• Unihan data for U+65ED

Chinese

simp. and trad.		旭
alternative forms		旮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 旭
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
尻	*kʰuː
訄	*kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓	*qʰruː
鳩	*ku
勼	*ku
九	*kuʔ
究	*kus
仇	*ɡu
鼽	*ɡu
犰	*ɡu
叴	*ɡu
厹	*ɡu
頄	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹	*ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏	*ɡu
訅	*ɡu
釚	*ɡu
肍	*ɡu
軌	*kʷrɯwʔ
宄	*kʷrɯwʔ
氿	*kʷrɯwʔ
匭	*kʷrɯwʔ
泦	*kuɡ
旭	*qʰʷoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷoɡ) : phonetic 九 (OC *kuʔ) + semantic 日 (“sun”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xù (xu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiok
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁷shioq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syù
    • Wade–Giles: hsü⁴
    • Yale: syù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuh
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: juk¹
    • Yale: yūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiok
    • Tâi-lô: hiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hiɔk̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷shioq
    • MiniDict: shioh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴xioq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕioʔ⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 旭
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕy⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ɕy⁵³/
	Tianjin	/ɕy⁵³/
	Jinan	/ɕy²¹³/
	Qingdao	/ɕy⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ɕy²⁴/
	Xi'an	/ɕy²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕy⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕy¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕy¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕy²¹³/
	Wuhan	/ɕy³⁵/
	Chengdu	/ɕyo³¹/ /ɕy³¹/
	Guiyang	/ɕiu²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕiu³¹/
	Nanjing	/ɕyʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/ɕyəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕy⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/ɕyʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕyəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕioʔ⁵/ /ɕyɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/ɕioʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ɕioʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/ɕɤu²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕiuʔ²¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕiəu²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ɕiəɯ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕiuʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/hiuk̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/hiuk̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jok̚⁵/
	Nanning	/juk̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/jok̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/hiɔk̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/høyʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/xy²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/hiok̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/hɔk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xjowk

Rime
Character	旭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	燭 (8)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許玉切
Baxter	xjowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hiok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xiok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huawk̚/
Li Rong	/xiok̚/
Wang Li	/xĭwok̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯wok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	huk1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷoɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	旭
Reading #	1/1
No.	6967
Phonetic component	九
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	旭
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷoɡ/

Definitions

旭

1. rising sun
2. brilliant; radiant

See also

• 日出 (rìchū, “sunrise”)
• 曉／晓 (xiǎo, “daybreak”)

Compounds

• 旭日 (xùrì)
• 旭日初升
• 旭日東升 (xùrìdōngshēng)
• 旭旦
• 旭旭
• 旭蟹
• 智旭

 

Further reading

• “旭”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

旭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. rising sun

Readings

• Go-on: こく (koku)
• Kan-on: きょく (kyoku)
• Kun: あさひ (asahi, 旭); あき (aki); てる (teru); あきら (akira)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
旭
あさひ Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Noun

旭(あさひ) • (asahi) 

For pronunciation and definitions of 旭 – see the following entry.

【朝日あさひ】 [noun] [from 712] rising sun, morning sun [proper noun] a surname Alternative spelling 旭日

(This term, 旭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Proper noun

旭(あさひ) • (Asahi) 

1. Asahi (a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan)
2. a surname

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
旭
あきら Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Proper noun

旭(あきら) • (Akira) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [uk̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [욱]

Hanja

Wikisource

旭 • (uk) (hangeul 욱, revised uk, McCune–Reischauer uk, Yale wuk)

1. rising sun
2. brilliance
3. radiant

Vietnamese

Han character

旭: Hán Nôm readings: húc

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References

• Nom Foundation