旭日

Chinese

		dawn; rising sun	day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (旭日)		旭	日

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xùrì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ ㄖˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk¹ jat⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hiuk-ngit
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiok-li̍t / hiok-ji̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xùrì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ ㄖˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syùrìh
    • Wade–Giles: hsü⁴-jih⁴
    • Yale: syù-r̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuhryh
    • Palladius: сюйжи (sjujži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk¹ jat⁶
    • Yale: yūk yaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁷ jat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug¹ yed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚⁵ jɐt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hiuk-ngit
    • Hakka Romanization System: hiug^ˋ ngid^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hiug⁵ ngid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /hi̯uk̚² ŋit̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiok-li̍t
    • Tâi-lô: hiok-li̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hioklit
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ lit̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /hiɔk̚³²⁻⁴ lit̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiok-ji̍t
    • Tâi-lô: hiok-ji̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiokjit
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɔk̚³²⁻⁵ d͡zit̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɔk̚³²⁻⁴ zit̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: xjowk nyit

Rime
Character	旭	日
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	燭 (8)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	許玉切	人質切
Baxter	xjowk	nyit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨok̚/	/ȵiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hiok̚/	/ȵit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xiok̚/	/ȵʑjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huawk̚/	/ȵit̚/
Li Rong	/xiok̚/	/ȵiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/xĭwok̚/	/ȵʑĭĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯wok̚/	/ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xu	rì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	huk1	jat6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷoɡ  njiɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	日
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rì
Middle Chinese	‹ nyit ›
Old Chinese	/*C.nik/
English	sun; day
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	旭	日
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	6967	10845
Phonetic component	九	日
Rime group	屋	質
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	旭	日
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷoɡ/	/*njiɡ/

Noun

旭日

1. rising sun

   • 雝雝鳴雁，旭日始旦。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     雍雍鸣雁，旭日始旦。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yōngyōng míng yàn, xùrì shǐ dàn. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• 朝陽／朝阳 (zhāoyáng)

Derived terms

• 旭日初升
• 旭日旗 (xùrìqí)
• 旭日東升 / 旭日东升 (xùrìdōngshēng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (旭日):

• → Japanese: 旭(きょく)日(じつ) (kyokujitsu)
• → Korean: 욱일(旭日) (ugil)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
旭	日
きょく Jinmeiyō	じつ Grade: 1
kan'on

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きょくじつ [kyòkújítsú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kʲo̞kɯ̟ʑit͡sɨ]

Noun

旭(きょく)日(じつ) • (kyokujitsu) 

1. rising sun

Derived terms

• 旭日旗(きょくじつき) (kyokujitsuki)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
旭	日
あさひ
Jinmeiyō	Grade: 1
jukujikun

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

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

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