U+6666, 晦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6666

[U+6665]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6667]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 72, +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日人田卜 (AOWY), four-corner 68057, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 496, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13960
  • Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1513, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6666

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character
Warring States
Chu slip and silk script
 

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *hmɯːs): semantic (sun) + phonetic (OC *mɯːʔ).

Etymology edit

STEDT compares (OC *hmɯːs) to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk (foggy; dark; sullen; menacing; thunder).

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (42)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter xwojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/huʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/huoiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xuɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hwəjH/
Li
Rong
/xuᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/xuɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xuɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fui3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huì
Middle
Chinese
‹ xwojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*m̥ˁək-s/
English last day of a moon; dark

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9315
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hmɯːs/

Definitions edit

  1. last day of a lunar month
  2. dark, unclear, obscure
  3. night
  4. 67th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "darkening" (𝍈)

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (かい) (kai)
  • Korean: 회(晦) (hoe)
  • Vietnamese: hối ()

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai
(extended)
Shinjitai
(extended)

晦󠄀
+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
   
晦󠄂
+&#xE0102;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai  
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Kanji edit

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
かい
Jinmeiyō
kan’on

/kʷai//kai/

From Middle Chinese (MC xwojH).

Affix edit

(かい) (kaiくわい (kwai)?

  1. end of the month
  2. dark, darkened
  3. obscure, unknown
  4. conceal, hide
Derived terms edit

Noun edit

(かん) (kanくわん (kwan)?

  1. a darkening of the sky
  2. something unclear or obscure
  3. the last day of a (lunar) month

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
つごもり
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
晦日

Shift from 月隠り (tsukikomori/tsukigomori, literally moon hiding).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(つごもり) (tsugomori

  1. (archaic) the darkening of moonlight
  2. (by extension) the last day of a (lunar) month
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
つもごり
Jinmeiyō
irregular
Alternative spelling
晦日

Alteration of tsugomori above.

Noun edit

(つもごり) (tsumogori

  1. (rare, archaic) the darkening of moonlight
  2. (rare, by extension) the last day of a (lunar) month
Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese (MC xwojH). Recorded as Middle Korean /회〯 (hwǒy) (Yale: hwoy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 그믐 (geumeum hoe))

  1. Hanja form? of (last day of a lunar month).

Compounds edit

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: hổi, hối, hói, hòi, hỗi, họi

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