Hanja Analyzer
曜

曜 — yo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
빛날 요
Romanization
yo
English
glorious, as sun; daylight, sunlight; one of the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)
Mandarin
yào
Japanese on'yomi
ヨウ
Japanese kun'yomi
かがやく
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 2
Newspaper frequency
#940 of 2,500
Strokes
18
Radical
日 (72, 14 residual)
Phonetic component
翟
Unicode
U+66DC

Parts that make up 曜

  • 日 날 일 해해와 밝기, 그리고 하루와 때
  • 翟 꿩 적, 꿩 책sound 깃 고운 꿩‘적·탁’ 계열의 소리

How 曜 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 曜 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 日, 翟.

Korean example words with 曜

  • 금요金曜 Korean gloss: ‘금요일’을 뜻하는 말
  • 목요木曜 Korean gloss: ‘목요일’을 뜻하는 말
  • 수요水曜 Korean gloss: ‘수요일’을 뜻하는 말
  • 월요月曜 Korean gloss: ‘월요일’을 뜻하는 말
  • 일요日曜 Korean gloss: ‘일요일’을 뜻하는 말
  • 토요土曜 Korean gloss: ‘토요일’을 뜻하는 말
  • 화요火曜 Korean gloss: ‘화요일’을 뜻하는 말
  • 요일曜日 Korean gloss: 일주일의 각 날을 이르는 말
  • 화요일火曜日 Korean gloss: 월요일을 기준으로 한 주의 둘째 날
  • 금요일金曜日 Korean gloss: 월요일을 기준으로 한 주의 다섯째 날
  • 일요일日曜日 Korean gloss: 월요일을 기준으로 한 주의 마지막 날
  • 토요일土曜日 Korean gloss: 월요일을 기준으로 한 주의 여섯째 날

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 曜

  • 土曜どよう Saturday
  • 曜日ようび day of the week
  • 日曜にちよう Sunday
  • 金曜きんよう Friday
  • 月曜げつよう Monday
  • 水曜すいよう Wednesday
  • 木曜もくよう Thursday
  • 火曜日かようび Tuesday
  • 火曜かよう Tuesday
  • 日曜版にちようばん Sunday edition of a newspaper
  • 黒曜石こくようせき obsidian
  • 金曜日きんようび Friday

Characters sharing the phonetic 翟

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “요”

Other hanja with radical 日

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