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

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• 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/

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• 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

1. (literary) sunshine; dawn sunlight
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. sunlight
2. sunshine
3. early dawn