咲

See also: 笑

咲	U+54B2, 咲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54B2

← 咱
[U+54B1]

CJK Unified Ideographs

咳 →
[U+54B3]

Translingual

Han character

咲 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口廿大 (RTK) or 難口廿大 (XRTK), composition ⿰口关)

Derived characters

𪞄

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 187, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3554
Dae Jaweon: page 406, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 619, character 3
Unihan data for U+54B2

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 咲 – see 笑 (“to laugh; to smile; to laugh at; to ridicule; etc.”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as an ancient form of 笑).

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 关 (“to laugh”). It was the original form of 笑, meaning "to laugh." In Japan, it is used to represent the idea of flowers blooming.^[1]

References

^ Digital Shinjigen 2017

Japanese

Shinjitai	咲
Kyūjitai ^[1]	咲󠄁 咲+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	咲󠄃 咲+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

咲

(Jōyō kanji)

blossom

Readings

Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
Kun: さく (saku, 咲く, Jōyō)、えむ (emu, 咲む)、わらう (warau, 咲う)^{←わらふ (warafu, 咲ふ, historical)}
Nanori: さき (saki)

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
咲
さき Grade: S
kun'yomi

(Tokyo) さき [sáꜜkì] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [sa̠kʲi]

Proper noun

咲(さき) • (Saki)

a female given name

References

^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 448 (paper), page 274 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

咲 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咲: Hán Nôm readings: tiếu

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[1] Digital Shinjigen 2017

[2] Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 448 (paper), page 274 (digital)

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