Character: 朝
Modern (Beijing) reading: cháo zhāo
Preclassic Old Chinese: dhraw traw
Classic Old Chinese: dhraw
Western Han Chinese: ḍhaw
Eastern Han Chinese: ḍhaw
Early Postclassic Chinese: ḍhew
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ḍhew
Late Postclassic Chinese: ḍhew
Middle Chinese: ḍew ṭew
English meaning : to go/come to court, come for an audience
Russian meaning[s]: 1) императорский двор; 2) династия; 3) императорское правительство; 4) явиться на прием (аудиенцию); аудиенция (у императора); 5) быть повернутым (обращенным) к...; повернуться лицом к...; к..., на...; [zhāo] 1) утро; 2) день; однажды
Comments: For *dh- cf. Chaozhou chiǝu2, Longdu chiaw2. Viet. chào is colloquial, and has another colloquial variant chầu; the regular Sino-Viet. form is triều. Also used for zhāo, MC ṭew [FQ 陟遙), OC *traw 'morning' (Sino-Viet. triêu). The character also has a graphic variant 晁 - which is a late Han-time graphic distortion of [], that was used since Late Zhou parallelly with 朝.
Radical: 74
Four-angle index: 3481
Karlgren code: 1143 a-c
Go-on: deu
Kan-on: teu
Japanese reading: chō+;asa+
Vietnamese reading: chào
Shijing occurrences: 51.2, 57.3_, 58.5_
