yù
bright
A dazzling 昱 flame 火; 昱 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 煜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
brilliant | ||
Li Yu (c. 937-978), given name of the final ruler of Tang of the Five Southern dynasties Li Houzhu 李後主|李后主, a renowned poet |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ɢʷrəp | yuwk | yù | shine, gleam |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3834th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+715C |
Shuowen | “煜,熠也。从火,昱聲。” |
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