昭

昭 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日尸竹口 (ASHR), four-corner 6706₂, composition ⿰日召)

• 𡎣, 𣸬, 𧼹, 𭫁, 𤋜, 照

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 493, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13855
• Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1504, character 9
• Unihan data for U+662D

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjew) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 召 (OC *dews, *djews).

照 (OC *tjews, “to shine”) is the exoactive of 昭 (OC *tjew, “bright”) (Schuessler, 2007). Compare with Burmese တောက် (tauk, “bright, brilliant, shining”).

昭

1. (literary) bright; luminous
2. obvious; clear
3. (literary) to display; to make clear
4. (literary) light
5. illustrious
6. (historical) the left side position of tablets in ancestral shrines

   Antonym: 穆 (mù)

7. a surname

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka, 昭らか)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)、いか (ika)、かず (kazu)、てる (teru)、はる (haru)

/seu/ → /ɕeu/ → /ɕʲoː/

From Middle Chinese 昭 (MC tsyew).

昭(しょう) • (shō) ^{←せう (seu)?}

1. bright
2. enlightened, glorious

Nominalization of the stem of adjective 明らか (akiraka, “clear, visible”).

昭(あきら) • (Akira) 

1. a male given name

昭 • (so, jo) (hangeul 소, 조, revised so, jo, McCune–Reischauer so, cho, Yale so, co)

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昭: Hán Nôm readings: chiu, chiêu

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