夕

夕 (Kangxi radical 36, 夕+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈 (NI), four-corner 2720₀, composition ⿴𠂊丶)

1. Kangxi radical #36, ⼣.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/夕
• 㐴, 汐, 㶤, 矽, 釸, 邜, 舛, 斘, 飧, 名
• 歹, 㒱, 歺, 岁, 芕, 㱑, 穸, 罗, 㱔, 梦, 匇, 奖, 桨, 浆, 酱, 䇟, 摉

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 246, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5749
• Dae Jaweon: page 487, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 859, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5915

Pictogram (象形) — moon crescent. Compare to its ancient variant 月.

Related to 汐 (OC *ljaːɡ, “evening tide”).

Schuessler (2007) suggests it is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rV-jak (“day; full day; to spend the night”); cognate with Tibetan ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”), Mizo riak (“to pass the night”), Jingpho [script needed] (jaʔ⁵⁵, “day (24 hours)”), Burmese ရက် (rak, “day (24 hours)”), Lahu há (“night; to pass the night”); may also be cognate with 宿 (OC *suɡs, *suɡ, “to spend the night”) and 昔 (OC *sjaːɡ, “former times”). It is noted that in the oracle bone script, the 24 hour day started and ended some time in the evening or night. Since 日 (rì, “sun”) has acquired the meaning of "day (24 hours)", 夕 was then restricted to the time of the day's end.

On the other hand, STEDT suggests 夕 (OC *ljaːɡ, “evening; night”) was derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ja-n (“night”), from which 夜 (OC *laːɡs, “night”) was also derived. However, 夕 was also compared to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rV-jak (“day; full day; to spend the night”). Schuessler (2007) assigns Chinese 夜 (yè) to *ja (“night”) instead, and notes *ja (“night”) and *ryak (“day (24 hours)”) were kept strictly separate in Tibeto-Burman.

夕

1. night; evening; dusk

   • 哀我征夫、朝夕不暇。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

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

     Āi wǒ zhēngfū, zhāoxī bùxiá. [Pinyin]

     Woe to us soldiers on these expeditions! Morning and evening we have no rest.

   • 今夕何夕兮，搴舟中流。今日何日兮，得與王子同舟。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     今夕何夕兮，搴舟中流。今日何日兮，得与王子同舟。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Shuoyuan, circa 1^st century BCE

     Jīnxī hé xī xī, qiān zhōu zhōngliú. Jīnrì hérì xī, dé yǔ wángzǐ tóng zhōu. [Pinyin]

     What night is tonight, that I take a boat into the stream? What day is today, that I get to share a boat with a prince?

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00839
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03133-001-1

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

1. evening

• Go-on: じゃく (jaku)^{←じやく (zyaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: ゆう (yū, 夕, Jōyō)^{←ゆふ (yufu, 夕, historical)}、ゆうべ (yūbe, 夕べ)^{←ゆふべ (yufube, 夕べ, historical)}

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *yupu.

• (Tokyo) ゆう [yùú] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• (Tokyo) ゆう [yúꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ː]

夕(ゆう) • (yū) ^{←ゆふ (yufu)?}

1. evening

• 夕(ゆう)方(がた) (yūgata)
• 夕(ゆう)暮(ぐ)れ (yūgure)
• 夕(ゆう)食(しょく) (yūshoku)
• 夕菅(ユウスゲ) (yūsuge)
• 夕(ゆう)べ (yūbe)

From Middle Chinese 夕 (MC zjek).

Recorded as Middle Korean 쎡〮 (Yale: ssyek) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean 셕〮 (syék) (Yale: syek) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource

夕 (eumhun 저녁 석 (jeonyeok seok))

1. hanja form^? of 석 (“evening”)

夕 (eumhun 한 움큼 사 (han umkeum sa))

1. hanja form^? of 사 (“A unit of capacity: one tenth of a 합 (合, hap), same as 작 (勺, jak)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: ゆー (yū, 夕)

Cognate with Japanese 夕 (yū).

• IPA^(key): /juː/

夕(ゆー) (yū) 

1. night, evening

夕: Hán Nôm readings: tịch

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