guāng
light
Pictograph of fire on top of a person.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤaŋ | kwang | guāng | light, brightness |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 79.8654% of movies
406th most common character in movies
290th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5149 |
Shuowen | “光,明也。从火在人上,光明意也。,古文。炗,古文。” |
Sources
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