variant of 燁|烨[yè]

Evolution

爗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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variant of |[yè]

Most common words with 爗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

glorious

黄长烨

Hwang Jang-yop (1923-2010), North Korean politician known for defecting to South Korea

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ɢʷ(r)[ə]p

hip

shine, gleam

*[ɢ]ʷ(r)[a]p

hjep

shine, gleam


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4538th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+7217

Shuowen

“爗,盛也。从火,聲。《詩》曰:‘爗爗震電。’”


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