曚

曚	U+66DA, 曚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66DA

← 曙
[U+66D9]

CJK Unified Ideographs

曛 →
[U+66DB]

Translingual

Han character

曚 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日廿月人 (ATBO), four-corner 6403₂, composition ⿰日蒙)

twilight just before the sun rises

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14223
Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 16
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1537, character 21
Unihan data for U+66DA

Chinese

trad.		曚
simp. ^#		曚

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冡) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
蒙	*moːŋ
冡	*moːŋ
濛	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
艨	moːŋ, moːŋs
朦	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
矇	*moːŋ
饛	*moːŋ
檬	*moːŋ
鸏	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
幪	*moːŋ
蠓	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
靀	*moːŋ
曚	*moːŋʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): méng (meng²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mung⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): morng²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: méng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: méng
  - Wade–Giles: mêng²
  - Yale: méng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
  - Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mung⁴
  - Yale: mùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mung⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: mung⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊŋ²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mó̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ²⁴/

Middle Chinese: muwngX

Rime
Character	曚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫孔切
Baxter	muwngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/muŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/muŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwŋ^X/
Li Rong	/muŋ^X/
Wang Li	/muŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	měng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mung⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*moːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	曚
Reading #	1/1
No.	8985
Phonetic component	冡
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蠓
Old Chinese	/*moːŋʔ/

Definitions

曚

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Compounds

曚曨 / 曚昽 (ménglóng)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “曚”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 155.

Japanese

Kanji

曚

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: む (mu)
Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
Kan’yō-on: もう (mō)
Kun: くらい (kurai, 曚い)

Korean

Hanja

曚 (eum 몽 (mong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

曚: Hán Nôm readings: mồng

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