昭

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昭 U+662D, 昭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-662D
← 昬
[U+662C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 昮 →
[U+662E]

Translingual

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Stroke order
9 strokes

Han character

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昭 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日尸竹口 (ASHR), four-corner 67062, composition ⿰日召)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 493, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13855
  • Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1504, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+662D

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 昭

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
刀 *taːw
忉 *taːw
魛 *taːw
舠 *taːw
朷 *taːw, *moːɡ
叨 *tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒 *taːwʔ, *taːws
到 *taːws
菿 *taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀 *deːw
鳭 *rteːw, *teːw
灱 *hreːw
菬 *sdew, *tjewʔ
超 *tʰew
怊 *tʰew, *tʰjew
欩 *tʰew
召 *dews, *djews
昭 *tjew
招 *tjew
鉊 *tjew
沼 *tjewʔ
照 *tjews
詔 *tjews
炤 *tjews
弨 *tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧 *tʰjewʔ
韶 *djew
佋 *djew, *djewʔ
軺 *djew, *lew
玿 *djew
柖 *djew
紹 *djewʔ
袑 *djewʔ
綤 *djewʔ
邵 *djews
劭 *djews
卲 *djews
刁 *teːw
芀 *teːw, *deːw
貂 *teːw
蛁 *teːw
迢 *deːw
苕 *deːw
髫 *deːw
岧 *deːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjew) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 召 (OC *dews, *djews).

Etymology

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照 (OC *tjews, “to shine”) is the exoactive of 昭 (OC *tjew, “bright”) (Schuessler, 2007). Compare with Burmese တောက် (tauk, “bright, brilliant, shining”).

Pronunciation

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Note: ziu1 - variant.
Note:
  • ziao1 - Shantou;
  • ziou1 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 昭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 止遙切
Baxter tsyew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ciaw/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiɛu/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ziu1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 昭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhāo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyew ›
Old
Chinese 		/*taw/
English bright

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 昭
Reading # 1/1
No. 2127
Phonetic
component 		刀
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		昭
Old
Chinese 		/*tjew/

Definitions

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昭

  1. (literary) bright; luminous
  2. obvious; clear
  3. (literary) to display; to make clear
  4. (literary) light
  5. illustrious
  6. (historical) the left side position of tablets in ancestral shrines
    Antonym: 穆 (mù)
  7. a surname

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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昭

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
昭
しょう
Grade: 3
on'yomi

/seu/ → /ɕeu/ → /ɕʲoː/

From Middle Chinese 昭 (MC tsyew).

Affix

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昭(しょう) • (shō) ←せう (seu)?

  1. bright
  2. enlightened, glorious
Derived terms
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Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
昭
あき(ら)
Grade: 3
nanori

Nominalization of the stem of adjective 明らか (akiraka, “clear, visible”).

Proper noun

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昭(あきら) • (Akira) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

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Hanja

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昭 • (so, jo) (hangeul 소, 조, revised so, jo, McCune–Reischauer so, cho, Yale so, co)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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昭: Hán Nôm readings: chiu, chiêu

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