朙

See also: 明

朙 U+6719, 朙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6719 ← 朘 [U+6718] CJK Unified Ideographs 朚 → [U+671A]

Translingual

Han character

朙 (Kangxi radical 74, 月+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田月月 (WBB), composition ⿰囧月)

Derived characters

• 𥂗, 𦹩, 𪆌

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 505, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14366
• Dae Jaweon: page 884, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2078, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6719

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 朙
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : phonetic 囧 (OC *kʷaŋʔ, “window”) + semantic 月 (“moon”) – the moon shining through a window – moonlight; bright. See 明 (OC *mraŋ) for other forms.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 朙 – see 明 (“bright; light; brilliant; clear; limpid; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 明).

Japanese

Kanji

朙

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: めい (mei)
• Kun: あかり (akari, 朙かり); あかるい (akarui, 朙るい); あかるむ (akarumu, 朙るむ)

Korean

Hanja

朙 • (myeong) (hangeul 명, revised myeong, McCune–Reischauer myŏng)

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