yào
glorious
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 耀 represents the sound.
Evolution
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
yào
glorious, as sun; daylight, sunlight; one of the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn); bright; glorious; one of the seven planets of premodern astronomy
Most common words with 曜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
bright | ||
obsidian (mining) | ||
the seven planets of premodern astronomy (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) | ||
Friday (used in ancient Chinese astronomy) | ||
obsidian (mining) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lewk-s | yewH | yào | shine |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4180th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Unicode | U+66DC |
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