曙

曙 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日田中日 (AWLA), four-corner 6606₄, composition ⿰日署)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14220
• Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1538, character 9
• Unihan data for U+66D9

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djas): semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 暑 (OC *hjaʔ).

曙

1. daybreak; dawn

• “曙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. dawn
2. daybreak

• Go-on: じょ (jo)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: あかつき (akatsuki, 曙)、あけぼの (akebono, 曙)、あける (akeru, 曙ける)
• Nanori: あきら (akira)、あけ (ake)

Compound of 明け (ake, “brighten”) +‎ 仄 (hono, “faint”)

• (Tokyo) あけぼの [àkébónó] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [a̠ke̞bo̞no̞]

曙(あけぼの) • (akebono) 

1. dawn (the time when night fades and the morning faintly brightens)
   • Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

     春(はる)はあけぼの。やうやうしろくなり行く、山(やま)ぎはすこしあかりて、むらさきだちたる雲(くも)のほそくたなびきたる。

     haru wa akebono. yōyō shiroku nariyuku, yamagiwa sukoshi akarite, murasakidachitaru kumo no hosoku tanabikitaru.

     In spring, the dawn – when the slowly paling mountain rim is tinged with red, and wisps of faintly crimson-purple cloud float in the sky

• See Thesaurus:明け方

From Middle Chinese 曙 (MC dzyoH). Recorded as Middle Korean 셔〯 (syě) (Yale: sye) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

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曙 (eumhun 새벽 서 (saebyeok seo))

1. hanja form^? of 서 (“dawn”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

曙: Hán Nôm readings: thự

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