暁

See also: 曉
暁 U+6681, 暁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6681
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[U+6680] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 暂 →
[U+6682]

Translingual

Traditional 曉
Shinjitai 暁
Simplified 晓

Han character

暁 (radical 72, 日+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日十廿山 (AJTU), composition ⿰日尭)

  1. dawn, daybreak
  2. clear, explicit

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 497, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14031
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 2, page 1516, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6681

Japanese

Shinjitai

 暁

Kyūjitai

 曉

Kanji

暁

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 曉)

  1. daybreak, dawn
  2. in the event

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
暁
あかとき
Grade: S
kun’yomi

/aka to2ki1/ invalid IPA characters (21) → /akatoki/

From Old Japanese. Compound of 明 (aka, “bright”) + 時 (toki, “time”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

暁 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 曉, hiragana あかとき, rōmaji akatoki)

  1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) dawn, daybreak
    c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 18, poem 4084), text here
    安 (あ)可 (か)登 (と)吉 (き)尓 (に)名 (な)能 (の)里 (り)奈 (な)久 (く)奈 (な)流 (る)保 (ほ)登 (と)等 (と)藝 (ぎ)須 (す)伊 (い)夜 (や)米 (め)豆 (づ)良 (ら)之 (し)久 (く)於 (お)毛 (も)保 (ほ)由 (ゆ)流 (る)香 (か)母 (も) [Man'yōgana]
    暁 (あかとき)に名 (な)告 (の)り鳴 (な)くなる霍公鳥 (ほととぎす)いやめづらしく思 (おも)ほゆるかも [Modern spelling]
    akatoki ni nanori nakunaru hototogisu iya mezurashiku omōyuru kamo
    (please add an English translation of this example)
Derived terms
  • 暁 (あかとき)闇 (やみ) (akatoki-yami, “moonless dawn”)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
暁
あかつき
Grade: S
kun’yomi

/akatoki/ → /akatuki/ → /akat͡suki/

Sound change from akatoki above.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

暁 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 曉, hiragana あかつき, rōmaji akatsuki)

  1. dawn, daybreak
    • 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (page 8 (back))[2]
      天暁 アカツキ
    905, Kokin Wakashū (book 13, poem 625; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 30)
    有明 (ありあけ)のつれなく見 (み)えし別 (わか)れより暁 (あかつき)ばかり憂 (う)きものはなし
    ariake no tsurenaku mieshi wakare yori akatsuki bakari ukimono wa nashi
    Since that parting when I saw that distant look in the late moon's glare, nothing seems more cruel to me than the hours before dawn.[3]
  2. event, occasion, occurrence
Synonyms
  • (dawn): See Thesaurus:明け方
Derived terms
  • 暁 (あかつき)起 (お)き (akatsuki-oki, “waking up just before daybreak”)
  • 暁 (あかつき)の空 (そら) (akatsuki no sora, “dawning sky”)
  • 暁 (あかつき)闇 (やみ) (akatsuki-yami, “moonless dawn”)
  • 成 (せい)功 (こう)の暁 (あかつき)には (seikō no akatsuki ni wa, “when one has succeeded”)
Proverbs
  • 春 (しゅん)眠 (みん)暁 (あかつき)を覚 (おぼ)えず (shunmin akatsuki o oboezu)

Proper noun

暁 (hiragana あかつき, rōmaji Akatsuki)

  1. A female given name.
  2. A surname​.

Etymology 3

Various nanori readings.

Proper noun

暁 (hiragana あかな, rōmaji Akana)

  1. A female given name.

暁 (hiragana あき, rōmaji Aki)

  1. A female given name.
  2. A surname​.

暁 (hiragana あきら, rōmaji Akira)

  1. A female given name.

暁 (hiragana きょう, rōmaji Kyō, historical hiragana けう)

  1. A unisex given name.

暁 (hiragana ぎょう, rōmaji Gyō, historical hiragana げう)

  1. A female given name.

暁 (hiragana さとし, rōmaji Satoshi)

  1. A male given name.

暁 (hiragana さとる, rōmaji Satoru)

  1. A unisex given name.

暁 (hiragana とおる, rōmaji Tōru)

  1. A unisex given name.

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ Tsukishima, Hiroshi (1079) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, published 1979, →ISBN.
  3. ↑ Shōtetsu (1997), Steven D. Carter, editor, Unforgotten Dreams: Poems by the Zen Monk Shōtetsu (Translations from the Asian classics), illustrated edition, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 38
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