暜

See also: 替, 普, 晋, and 𤾕

暜 U+669C, 暜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-669C ← 暛 [U+669B] CJK Unified Ideographs 暝 → [U+669D]

暜 U+2F8D5, 暜 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8D5 ← 最 [U+2F8D4] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 肭 → [U+2F8D6]

Translingual

Alternative forms

A CJK compatibility ideograph (U+2F8D5) exists with 曰 as the bottom component instead of 日.

Han character

暜 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 難卜廿日 (XYTA) or 卜廿日 (YTA), composition ⿱竝日 or ⿱竝曰)

Derived characters

• 𧭘/譜, 普 (and its derived characters), 替 (and its derived characters)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 498, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14082
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1530, character 18
• Unihan data for U+669C

• Unihan data for U+2F8D5

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (替) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
替	*tʰiːds
暜	*tʰiːds
僣	*tʰiːd

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 暜 – see 替 (“to substitute for; to displace; for; in place of; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 替).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 暜 – see 普 (“lustreless; universal; general; widespread; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 普).

Usage notes

Note that etymology 1 applies to the character with 曰 (U+2F8D5) as the bottom component while etymology 2 applies to the character with 日 (U+669C) as the bottom component. When regular script (楷書) became the more prominent style in Chinese calligraphy, the component 竝 in 暜 was simplified to make 替 and 普, respectively, to avoid confusion between the two forms.

Japanese

Kanji

暜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 普 (普) (general, universal, widespread)

Readings

• On (unclassified): ふ (fu)
• Kun: あまねし (amaneshi)

Usage notes

This character was added to JIS X 0208 in 1990 but is scarcely used except in historical texts.