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晃

huǎng, huàng

bright

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 光 represents the sound. Simplified form of 㨪.

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

光 sound component

光  Sound component

guāng

  

light

Evolution

晃 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
晃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
晃 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
晃 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
晃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

晃  

huǎng

bright, dazzling; to sway, shake; to dazzle; to flash past

晃  

huàng

to sway; to shake; to wander about

晃 (㨪) 

huǎng

variant of 晃[huǎng]

Most common words with 晃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

晃

to sway

摇晃

to rock

晃动

to sway

一晃

(of a sight) in a flash

晃悠

to swing

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

幌

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.4597% of movies

1951st most common character in movies

1796th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6643

Shuowen

“晄，明也。从日，光聲。”


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