光

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See also: 灮

Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The character shows the rays of the sun, with the lower lines squared and balanced off.

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Han character[edit]

光 (radical 10 儿+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 火一山 (FMU), four-corner 90211, composition ⿱⿱⺌一儿)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 124, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1350
  • Dae Jaweon: page 262, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 266, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5149

Chinese[edit]

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simp. and trad.
 光

Pronunciation[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (光, reconstructed)
Character (光), Pronunciation 1/2

Initial: 見 (28)
Final: 唐
Division: I

Openness: Closed
Tone: Level (Ø)

 Fanqie: 古黃切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/kwɑŋ/ /kwɑŋ/ /kuɑŋ/ /kʷɑŋ/ /kwaŋ/ /kuɑŋ/ /kuɑŋ/
Character (光), Pronunciation 2/2

Initial: 見 (28)
Final: 唐
Division: I

Openness: Closed
Tone: Departing (H)

 Fanqie: 古曠切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/kwɑŋH/ /kwɑŋH/ /kuɑŋH/ /kʷɑŋH/ /kwaŋH/ /kuɑŋH/ /kuɑŋH/
Old Chinese pronunciation (光, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
光 guāng ‹ kwang › /*kʷˤaŋ/ light, brightness

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

  • Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
  • Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
  • Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
  • Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
  • Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
光 4506 光 陽 0 /*kʷaːŋ/ 灮隸變
光 4517 光 陽 0 桄 /*kʷaːŋs/

Definitions[edit]

光

  1. light, beam, ray
    一束光透過門縫射進來。 [MSC, trad.]
    一束光透过门缝射进来。 [MSC, simp.]
    Yī shù guāng tòuguò ménfèng shè jìnlái. [Pinyin]
    A beam of light shone through the door.
  2. only
  3. to make bare

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
光

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Etymology[edit]

Stem noun form of verb 光 (ひか)る (hikaru, “to shine, to glitter, to gleam”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

光 (hiragana ひかり, romaji hikari)

  1. a physically perceived light: a light, a gleam, shining, glittering
    ダイヤモンドの光 (ひかり)
    daiyamondo no hikari
    a diamond's glitter / shine / twinkling
  2. a metaphorical light: glory, a glimmer, a gleam
    前途 (ぜんと)に光 (ひかり)を失 (うしな)う
    zento ni hikari o ushinau
    to lose light regarding the future → future prospects grow dim
    解決 (かいけつ)への道 (みち)に光 (ひかり)を投 (な)げかける
    kaiketsu e no michi ni hikari o nagekakeru
    to shed light on the way to a solution
  3. (in compounds) optics
    光 (ひかり)ファイバー
    hikari faibā
    optical fiber

Alternative forms[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

光 (hiragana ひかる, romaji Hikaru)

  1. A male given name

光 (hiragana ひかり, romaji Hikari)

  1. a place name, such as that of Hikari City in Yamaguchi Prefecture
  2. one of the bullet train services running on the Tōkaido/Sanyō shinkansen
  3. a surname and A female given name

光 (hiragana こう, romaji Kō)

  1. A male given name

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

光 (gwang) (hangeul 광, revised gwang, McCune-Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

光 (quang, cuông, quàng, quăng)

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