耀 - Dong Chinese dictionary

yào

shine

Phonosemantic compound. 光 represents the meaning and 翟 represents the sound.

Components

光 Meaning component

guāng

light

翟 Sound component

dí, zhái

a kind of pheasant

耀 and 翟 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.耀 /*lewk-s/
翟 /*lˤewk/

Definitions

yào

shine, sparkle, dazzle; glory; brilliant; glorious

Most common words with 耀

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*lewk-s	yewH	yào	shine

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 13.6953% of movies

1753rd most common character in movies

1804th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	20
Unicode	U+8000

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