昭
Meanings
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- 1.bright
- 2.clear
- 3.manifest
- 4.to show clearly
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Wiktionary
- 1.bright; luminous
- 2.obvious; clear
- 3.to display; to make clear
- 4.light
- 5.illustrious
- 6.the left side position of tablets in ancestral shrines
- 7.a surname
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Etymology
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”).
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Related words
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