朔

朔 (Kangxi radical 74, 月+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿山月 (TUB), four-corner 8742₀, composition ⿰屰月)

1. first day of lunar month
2. the north

• 搠, 嗍, 溯, 鎙 (𫔈), 蒴, 塑, 槊, 愬, 遡

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 505, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14359
• Dae Jaweon: page 884, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2072, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6714

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋraːɡ): phonetic 屰 (OC *ŋraɡ) + semantic 月 (“moon”)

From 逆 (OC *ŋraɡ) plus s-prefix. Schuessler (2007) interprets it as literally "turn again toward to meet"; while Baxter & Sagart (2014) interprets it as "when the moon changes from waning to waxing", with s- being a circumstantial prefix for place, time, & instrument.

朔

1. new moon

   朔月  ―  shuòyuè  ―  new moon

2. the first day of the lunar month

   朔日  ―  shuòrì  ―  the first day of the lunar month

   朔望  ―  shuòwàng  ―  the first and 15th day of every lunar month

3. (literary) north

   朔方  ―  shuòfāng  ―  north

4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) early morning
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) beginning

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. the first day of the lunar month
2. north

• Go-on: さく (saku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku)
• Kun: ついたち (tsuitachi, 朔)、きた (kita, 朔)

From Middle Chinese 朔 (MC sraewk). Recorded as Middle Korean 삭〮 (sák) (Yale: sak) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

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朔 (eumhun 초하루 삭 (choharu sak))

1. hanja form^? of 삭 (“the first day of the lunar month”)

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

朔: Hán Nôm readings: sóc, xóc, xộc

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