日景

Chinese

		day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)	bright; circumstance; scenery
simp. and trad. (日景)		日	景

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rìjǐng

  (Zhuyin): ㄖˋ ㄐㄧㄥˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rìjǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄖˋ ㄐㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rìhjǐng
    • Wade–Giles: jih⁴-ching³
    • Yale: r̀-jǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ryhjiing
    • Palladius: жицзин (žiczin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐ̩⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: nyit kjaengX

Rime
Character	日	景
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	人質切	居影切
Baxter	nyit	kjaengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪt̚/	/kˠiæŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵit̚/	/kᵚiaŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjet̚/	/kiaŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵit̚/	/kiajŋX/
Li Rong	/ȵiĕt̚/	/kiɐŋX/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕt̚/	/kĭɐŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/	/ki̯ɐŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rì	jǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jat6	ging2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.nik  C.qraŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njiɡ  kraŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	日	景
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rì	jǐng
Middle Chinese	‹ nyit ›	‹ kjængX ›
Old Chinese	/*C.nik/	/*C.qraŋʔ/
English	sun; day	bright; image
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	日	景
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10845	6831
Phonetic component	日	京
Rime group	質	陽
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	日	警
Old Chinese	/*njiɡ/	/*kraŋʔ/

Noun

日景

1. (literary) sunlight

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 日景 – see 日影 (“shadow of the sun”). (This term is a variant form of 日影).