# 曦

| 曦 | U+66E6, &#26342; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66E6 |
| ← 曥 [U+66E5] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 曧 → [U+66E7] |

## Translingual
### Han character

曦 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 日廿土尸 (ATGS), four-corner 6805$_3$, composition ⿰日羲)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 33
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14253
* Dae Jaweon: page 872, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1541, character 21
* Unihan data for U+66E6

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 莪 | *ŋaːl |
| 哦 | *ŋaːl |
| 娥 | *ŋaːl |
| 峨 | *ŋaːl |
| 峩 | *ŋaːl |
| 鵝 | *ŋaːl |
| 俄 | *ŋaːl |
| 蛾 | *ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ |
| 睋 | *ŋaːl |
| 涐 | *ŋaːl |
| 誐 | *ŋaːl |
| 硪 | *ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ |
| 我 | *ŋaːlʔ |
| 騀 | *ŋaːlʔ |
| 餓 | *ŋaːls |
| 義 | *ŋrals |
| 儀 | *ŋral |
| 轙 | *ŋral, *ŋralʔ |
| 檥 | *ŋral, *ŋralʔ |
| 蟻 | *ŋralʔ |
| 艤 | *ŋralʔ |
| 礒 | *ŋralʔ |
| 羛 | *ŋralʔ, *hŋral |
| 議 | *ŋrals |
| 犧 | *hŋral |
| 曦 | *hŋral |
| 羲 | *hŋral |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hŋral) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 羲 (OC *hŋral).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xī (xi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hei$^1$
* Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hi$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): hi$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xī
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: si
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^1$
*** Yale: syī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hei$^1$
*** Yale: hēi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hei$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: héi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hei̯⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: hi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /hi⁴⁴/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hi
*** Tâi-lô: hi
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hy
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hi³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /hi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hi⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: hi$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hi
*** Sinological IPA : /hi³³/
* Middle Chinese: xje
Rime :
| Character | 曦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (13) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 許羈切 |
| Baxter | xje |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hˠiᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /hᵚiɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xiɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /hjiə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /xje/ |
| Wang Li | /xǐe/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /xie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hei$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*hŋral/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 曦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13058 |
| Phonetic component | 我 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 犧 |
| Old Chinese | /*hŋral/ |

### Definitions

曦
* (literary) sunshine; dawn sunlight
* Alternative form of 羲 (xī)

### Compounds

* 丹曦
* 微曦
* 晨曦 (chénxī)
* 曦和
* 曦月
* 曦軒／曦轩
* 曦馭／曦驭
* 朝曦 (zhāoxī)
* 東曦既駕／东曦既驾
* 赫曦

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* the sun

#### Readings

* Go-on: き (ki)
* Kan-on: き (ki)
* Kan’yō-on: ぎ (gi)
* Kun: ひ (hi, 曦)、ひかり (hikari, 曦)

## Korean
### Hanja

曦 • (hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune–Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)
* sunlight
* sunshine
* early dawn