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Radical 36夕

夕 (Kangxi radical 36,夕+0, 3 strokes,cangjie input弓戈 (NI),four-corner2720₀,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

Historical forms of the character夕
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

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

Schuessler (2007) suggests it is fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*rV-jak(“day; full day; to spend the night”); cognate withTibetanཞག(zhag,“day (24 hours)”),Mizoriak(“to pass the night”),Jingpho[script needed](jaʔ⁵⁵,“day (24 hours)”),Burmeseရက်(rak,“day (24 hours)”),Lahuhá(“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 fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*ja-n(“night”), from which夜 (OC*laːɡs, “night”) was also derived. However,夕 was also compared toProto-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. andsimp.]

     From: TheClassic of Poetry,c. 11^th – 7^th centuriesBCE, translated based onJames Legge's version

     Āi wǒ zhēngfū, zhāoxī bùxiá.[Pinyin]

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

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

     From:Shuoyuan, circa 1^st centuryBCE

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

     Whatnight 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)}

FromOld Japanese, fromProto-Japonic*yupu. Compare夜(よ)(yo₁ ~ *y^wo > yo,“night”).

• (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”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

FromMiddle Chinese夕 (MC zjek).

Recorded asMiddle Korean쎡〮 (Yale:ssyek) inDongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded asMiddle Korean셕〮(syék) (Yale:syek) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

夕

夕 (eumhun저녁석(jeonyeok seok))

1. hanja form^? of석(“evening”)

夕 (eumhun한움큼사(han umkeum sa))

1. hanja form^? of사(“A unit of capacity: one tenth of a합 (合,hap), same as작 (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.[2]

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun:ゆー(yū,夕)

Cognate withJapanese夕(yū).

• IPA^(key): /juː/

夕(ゆー) (yū) 

1. night,evening

夕:Hán Nôm readings:tịch

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