huī

sunshine

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

軍 sound component

  Sound component

jūn

  

army

Evolution

暉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
暉 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
暉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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huī

sunshine; light, bright, radiant; to shine upon; variant of |[huī]

Most common words with 暉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

sunshine

余晖

twilight

春晖

lit. spring sunshine

珠晖区

Zhuhui district of Hengyang city 衡陽市|衡阳市[Héng​yáng​shì], Hunan

晖映

to reflect

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰər

xjw+j

huī

brilliant


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3489th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+6689

Shuowen

“暉,光也。从日,軍聲。”


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