jiǒng

bright

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

fire

冋 sound component

  Sound component

jiōng

  

a desert

Evolution

炯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
炯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
炯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiǒng

bright, brilliant, clear; hot; bright; clear

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jiǒng

old variant of [jiǒng]

Most common words with 炯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

bright

炯炯有神

eyes bright and full of expression

炯炯

shining

陈炯明

Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong

杨炯

Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chū​Táng​Sì​jié]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2933rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+70AF

Shuowen

“炯,光也。从火,冋聲。”


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