shuò
shine
The happy 樂 light of a flame 火
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 爍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
flickering | ||
bright | ||
to speak evasively (idiom); beating about the bush | ||
glorious and world-shattering | ||
scintillator |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*r̥ewk (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing) | syak | shuò | melt, infuse |
*r̥ewk (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing) | syak | shuò | shine (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5537% of movies
3051st most common character in movies
2702nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+720D |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“爍,灼爍,光也。从火,樂聲。” |
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