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Translingual

Han character

(radical 159 +8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火山月十十 (FUBJJ), four-corner 97256, composition)

  1. brightness, lustre, brilliance

References

  • KangXi: page 1244, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38372
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1721, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3538, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8F1D

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰul
*qʰul
*qʰul
*qʰul
*qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
*qʰul, *ɡuːn
*qʰul
*qʰons, *ɢuns
*kuːn
*kuːn, *ɢuns
*kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
*kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
*kuːns
*ŋɡuːn
*ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
*ŋɡuːns
*ɡuːn, *ɢuns
*ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːnʔ
*kun
*kun, *kuns
*ŋɡunʔ
*ŋɡunʔ
*qʰun
*qunʔ
*qunʔ
*ɢuns
*ɢuns
*ɢuns

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (21)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hʉi/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷɨi/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiuəi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/huj/
Li
Rong
/xiuəi/
Wang
Li
/xĭwəi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xwe̯i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huī
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjwɨj ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʷʰər/
English brilliant

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 7304
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰul/
Notes

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

(hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

(hwi) (hangeul , revised hwi, McCune-Reischauer hwi, Yale hwi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(huy)

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