huī
sunshine
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 軍 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 暉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
sunshine | ||
twilight | ||
lit. spring sunshine | ||
Zhuhui district of Hengyang city 衡陽市|衡阳市[Héngyángshì], Hunan | ||
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。” |
Sources
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