càn

vivid

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

fire

粲 sound component

  Sound component

càn

  

polish

Evolution

燦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
燦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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càn

vivid, illuminating; bright; glorious; brilliant; lustrous; resplendent

Most common words with 燦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

灿烂

to glitter

glorious

金灿灿

golden-bright and dazzling

灿若繁星

bright as a multitude of stars (idiom); extremely able talent

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8192% of movies

2790th most common character in movies

2591st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+71E6

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“燦,燦爤,明瀞皃。从火,粲聲。”


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