炯 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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jiǒng

bright

Components

火 Meaning component

huǒ

fire

冋 Sound component

jiōng

a desert

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

jiǒng

bright, brilliant, clear; hot; bright; clear

jiǒng

old variant of 炯[jiǒng]

Most common words with 炯

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	炯	bright
	炯炯有神	eyes bright and full of expression
	炯炯	shining
	陈炯明	Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong
	杨炯	Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑\|初唐四杰[ChūTángSìjié]