bǐng
bright
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 丙 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 炳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
bright | ||
shining | ||
Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution | ||
bright and luminous | ||
to shine through the ages (idiom) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.2563% of movies
3050th most common character in movies
3227th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+70B3 |
Shuowen | “炳，明也。从火，丙聲。” |
Sources
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