暉 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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huī

sunshine

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 軍 represents the sound.

Components

日 Meaning component

rì

sun

軍 Sound component

jūn

army

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

huī

sunshine; light, bright, radiant; to shine upon; variant of 輝|辉[huī]

Most common words with 暉

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	晖	sunshine
	余晖	twilight
	春晖	lit. spring sunshine
	珠晖区	Zhuhui district of Hengyang city 衡陽市\|衡阳市[Héngyángshì], Hunan
	晖映	to reflect

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*qʷʰər	xjw+j	huī	brilliant

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3489th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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