曦

曦	U+66E6, 曦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66E6

← 曥
[U+66E5]

CJK Unified Ideographs

曧 →
[U+66E7]

Translingual

Han character

曦 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 日廿土尸 (ATGS), four-corner 6805₃, composition ⿰日羲)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 33
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14253
Dae Jaweon: page 872, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1541, character 21
Unihan data for U+66E6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		曦
alternative forms		爔㬢／𮲛燨羲

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
莪	*ŋaːl
哦	*ŋaːl
娥	*ŋaːl
峨	*ŋaːl
峩	*ŋaːl
鵝	*ŋaːl
俄	*ŋaːl
蛾	ŋaːl, ŋralʔ
睋	*ŋaːl
涐	*ŋaːl
誐	*ŋaːl
硪	ŋaːl, ŋaːlʔ
我	*ŋaːlʔ
騀	*ŋaːlʔ
餓	*ŋaːls
義	*ŋrals
儀	*ŋral
轙	ŋral, ŋralʔ
檥	ŋral, ŋralʔ
蟻	*ŋralʔ
艤	*ŋralʔ
礒	*ŋralʔ
羛	ŋralʔ, hŋral
議	*ŋrals
犧	*hŋral
曦	*hŋral
羲	*hŋral

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hi¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hi¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hi

(Teochew, Peng'im): hi¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xī
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: si
  - Wade–Giles: hsi¹
  - Yale: syī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hei¹
  - Yale: hēi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: héi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: hi¹
  - Sinological IPA: /hi⁴⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hi¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hi⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hi⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hi
  - Tâi-lô: hi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hi⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hi³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hi⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hi⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hi⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hi¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hi³³/

Middle Chinese: xje

Rime
Character	曦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許羈切
Baxter	xje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/xiɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjiə̆/
Li Rong	/xje/
Wang Li	/xǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hei¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*hŋral/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	曦
Reading #	1/1
No.	13058
Phonetic component	我
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	犧
Old Chinese	/*hŋral/

Definitions

曦

(literary) sunshine; dawn sunlight
alternative form of 羲 (xī)

Compounds

丹曦
微曦
晨曦 (chénxī)
曦和
曦月
曦軒 / 曦轩
曦馭 / 曦驭
朝曦 (zhāoxī)
東曦既駕 / 东曦既驾
赫曦

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “曦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

曦

(Hyōgai kanji)

the sun

Readings

Go-on: き (ki)
Kan-on: き (ki)
Kan’yō-on: ぎ (gi)
Kun: ひ (hi, 曦)、ひかり (hikari, 曦)

Korean

Hanja

曦 • (hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune–Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

sunlight
sunshine
early dawn