晦

晦 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日人田卜 (AOWY), four-corner 6805₇, composition ⿰日每)

• 𤹾

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 496, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13960
• Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1513, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6666

Historical forms of the character 晦
Warring States
Chu slip and silk script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hmɯːs) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 每 (OC *mɯːʔ).

STEDT compares 晦 (OC *hmɯːs) to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk (“foggy; dark; sullen; menacing; thunder”).

晦

1. last day of a lunar month
2. dark, unclear, obscure
3. night
4. 67th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "darkening" (𝍈)

• “晦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• Go-on: け (ke)^{←け (ke, historical)←くゑ (kwe, ancient)}
• Kan-on: かい (kai)^{←くわい (kwai, historical)}
• Kun: つごもり (tsugomori, 晦); くらい (kurai, 晦い); くらます (kuramasu, 晦ます); くらむ (kuramu, 晦む)

• 晦日(みそか) (misoka)

/kʷai/ → /kai/

From Middle Chinese 晦 (MC xwojH).

晦(かい) • (kai) ^{←くわい (kwai)?}

1. end of the month
2. dark, darkened
3. obscure, unknown
4. conceal, hide

晦(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. a darkening of the sky
2. something unclear or obscure
3. the last day of a (lunar) month

Shift from 月隠り (tsukikomori/tsukigomori, literally “moon hiding”).[1]

• (Tokyo) つごもり [tsùgómórí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝɡo̞mo̞ɾʲi]

晦(つごもり) • (tsugomori) 

1. (archaic) the darkening of moonlight
2. (by extension) the last day of a (lunar) month

Alteration of tsugomori above.

晦(つもごり) • (tsumogori) 

1. (rare, archaic) the darkening of moonlight
2. (rare, by extension) the last day of a (lunar) month

• 大(おお)晦(つもごり) (ōtsumogori)

From Middle Chinese 晦 (MC xwojH). Recorded as Middle Korean ⿰日毎 (⿰ 日 毎)/회〯 (hwǒy) (Yale: hwoy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource 晦 (eumhun 그믐 회 (geumeum hoe))

1. Hanja form^? of 회 (“last day of a lunar month”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

晦: Hán Nôm readings: hổi, hối, hói, hòi, hỗi, họi

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