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照

照

See also: 炤

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

照 (radical 86 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日口火 (ARF), four-corner 67336, composition ⿱昭灬)

References

  • KangXi: page 677, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19226
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1089, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2221, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7167

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 照

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
刀 *taːw
忉 *taːw
鱽 *taːw
舠 *taːw
朷 *taːw, *moːɡ
叨 *tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒 *taːwʔ, *taːws
到 *taːws
菿 *taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀 *deːw
鳭 *rteːw, *teːw
灱 *hreːw
菬 *sdew, *tjewʔ
超 *tʰew
怊 *tʰew, *tʰjew
欩 *tʰew
召 *dews, *djews
昭 *tjew
招 *tjew
鉊 *tjew
沼 *tjewʔ
照 *tjews
詔 *tjews
炤 *tjews
弨 *tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧 *tʰjewʔ
韶 *djew
佋 *djew, *djewʔ
軺 *djew, *lew
玿 *djew
柖 *djew
紹 *djewʔ
袑 *djewʔ
綤 *djewʔ
邵 *djews
劭 *djews
卲 *djews
刁 *teːw
芀 *teːw, *deːw
貂 *teːw
蛁 *teːw
迢 *deːw
苕 *deːw
髫 *deːw
岧 *deːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjews) : semantic 灬 ‎(“fire”) + phonetic 昭 ‎(OC *tjew) – shine the light of a fire on.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 照
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之少切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciawH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiɛuH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 照
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyewH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*taw-s/
English shine on

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 照
Reading # 1/1
No. 2132
Phonetic
component		 刀
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 沼
Old
Chinese		 /*tjews/

Definitions

照

  1. to shine upon; to illuminate
  2. to reflect; to look (in the mirror)
  3. to contrast; to compare
  4. to notify; to inform
  5. to take care of
  6. to take a photo
  7. sunshine; sunlight
  8. photo; photograph; picture
  9. license; permit
  10. according to; as; in accordance with
  11. regardless; anyway; continue to
  12. towards; to

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

照

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. illumination, shining

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

Kanji in this term
照
てらし
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

照 ‎(hiragana てらし, romaji Terashi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

照 • ‎(jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

照 (chiếu)

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