huī

brightness

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
光 meaning component

  Meaning component

guāng

  

light

軍 sound component

  Sound component

jūn

  

army

Definitions

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huī

brightness, luster, brilliance; splendor; to shine upon

Most common words with 輝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辉煌

splendid

光辉

radiance

splendor

李登辉

Lee Teng-hui (1923-), Taiwanese politician, president of ROC 1988-2000

蓬荜生辉

see also 蓬蓽生光|蓬荜生光[péng​bì​shēng​guāng]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰər

xjw+j

huī

brilliant


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.0777% of movies

2377th most common character in movies

1623rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+8F1D


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