旭

旭 U+65ED, 旭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65ED ← 旬 [U+65EC] CJK Unified Ideographs 旮 → [U+65EE]

Stroke order

旭 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 大弓日 (KNA), four-corner 4601₀, composition ⿺九日)

• 𮎴, 𢬐, 𣑢, 𪺬, 𫀯, 𮡵, 𬲑, 𫘲

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 489, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13747
• Dae Jaweon: page 851, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1485, character 4
• Unihan data for U+65ED

simp. and trad.		旭
alternative forms		旮

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷoɡ) : phonetic 九 (OC *kuʔ) + semantic 日 (“sun”).

旭

1. rising sun
2. brilliant; radiant

• 日出 (rìchū, “sunrise”)
• 曉／晓 (xiǎo, “daybreak”)

• “旭”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “旭”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 268.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. rising sun

• Go-on: こく (koku)
• Kan-on: きょく (kyoku)
• Kun: あさひ (asahi, 旭)、あき (aki)、てる (teru)、あきら (akira)

Kanji in this term
旭
あさひ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

旭(あさひ) • (asahi) 

For pronunciation and definitions of 旭 – see the following entry.

【朝日あさひ】 [noun] [from 712] rising sun, morning sun [proper noun] a surname Alternative spelling 旭日

(This term, 旭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

旭(あさひ) • (Asahi) 

1. Asahi (a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan)
2. a surname

Kanji in this term
旭
あきら Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

旭(あきら) • (Akira) 

1. a male given name

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [uk̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [욱]

Wikisource

旭 • (uk) (hangeul 욱, revised uk, McCune–Reischauer uk, Yale wuk)

1. rising sun
2. brilliance
3. radiant

旭: Hán Nôm readings: húc

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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