朝

Glyph origin
In the oracle bone script, it was an : 2 or 4 or even  +  +  – the sun rising above the ground while the waning moon is still in the sky – the morning.

In the bronze script, it was a compound of and a pictograph of a river ( or ) – this was possibly an original form for. The river glyph may be a corruption of due to association with tides or diurnal events. considers such forms to be, where is the abbreviated form of the phonetic. In the some late Western Zhou forms, was corrupted into a form resembling.

According to, in the stone drum inscriptions (, likely from the ) was added (attached to ), and the river glyph was replaced with , which was interpreted as the phonetic component; the small seal script might have inherited from this form.  interpreted the fused components of and  as a semantic component. However, the accuracy of identification has been questioned; the character was a heavily weathered one in which the identification was probably spurious and likely influenced by the . Meanwhile, the 舟 component on the right remained somewhat legible.

The component remained in the  of the  (see the table). In the clerical script since the, had been reverted to ; it is unclear whether this was a remnant from  in the oracle bone script or a corruption of  (as in  <  and many other characters). The current form is essentially inherited from the clerical script.

Etymology
“Morning” > “perform the morning ceremony” > “to go/come to court; to have an audience”. Derivative:.

Perhaps related to 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) morning
 * 2) daytime; day; full day
 * 3)  beginning; start
 * 4)  breakfast
 * 1)  beginning; start
 * 2)  breakfast
 * 1)  breakfast

Definitions

 * 1)  to wish elders or seniors good health; to visit (a senior person)
 * 2)  to have an audience with the king or emperor; to perform the morning ceremony; to go to court
 * 3) to make a pilgrimage to; to pay homage to
 * 4) to assemble; to call; to gather
 * 5) imperial court
 * 6) dynasty line of rulers
 * 7) emperor's reign; period ruled by a particular emperor or king
 * 8) government; imperial government
 * 9) affairs of the state
 * 10)  courtier class
 * 11)  paternal grandfather
 * 12) to face
 * 13) towards; to; on
 * 1) towards; to; on

Readings
From :

From :

Etymology 1
From, from. Attested in the  of 759.

Historically, a day was split into two halves: While asa and ashita represent the same time period, asa was associated with beginning of the afternoon and ashita was associated with the end of the night. Both terms share an initial as- and are likely etymologically related.
 * Afternoon cycle: →  →
 * Evening cycle: →  →  →  →

Beyond Japonic, possibly related to 🇨🇬 > 🇨🇬. believes this is a Koreanic borrowing into Japanese, identifying as the native Japonic root for "morning".
 * However, is not attested until the late 800s or early 900s, and root  as in  not until roughly 850.

Alternatively, may be cognate with adjective, verbs and.
 * The concepts of "shallow" and "deep" are used in other respects relative to time, such as and, where the fuk- root in both terms is from.

Pronunciation

 * (Kyoto) あ ( - [2])

Noun

 * 1) the morning

Etymology 2
From. Attested in the  of 720.

Historically, a day was split into two halves: While asa and ashita represent the same time period, asa was associated with beginning of the afternoon and ashita was associated with the end of the night. Both terms share an initial as- and are likely etymologically related.
 * Afternoon cycle: →  →
 * Evening cycle: →  →  →  →

Pronunciation

 * (Kyoto)  ( - [0])

Noun

 * 1)  the morning, morn
 * 2)  the morrow, next morning

Etymology 3
→ →

The “morning” and “Korea” senses are from.

The “imperial court”, “dynasty”, and “epoch” senses are from, using the  borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) the morning
 * 2) an imperial court
 * 3) an imperial reign or dynasty
 * 4) a country governed by a monarch
 * 5) a bustling place, such as downtown

Suffix

 * 1) dynasty

Affix

 * 1) morning
 * 2) imperial court
 * 3)  Japan
 * 4) having an audience with the emperor
 * 5) dynasty, regime
 * 6)  epoch, period
 * 7)  Korea, specifically  Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology 1
From.

The as- stem refers to “the morning” or “after the dawn”, possibly cognate with or an apophonic form of.

Noun

 * 1) the morning, morn

Etymology 2
From.

Possibly from 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) the morrow, next morning

Han character

 * 1) Related to . (Nguyễn Văn Khang. Từ ngoại lai trong tiếng Việt, 2007)

Readings

 * Nôm: chào, chầu, chiều, chìu, dèo, giàu, trào, trèo, triêu, triều