爝

Translingual

Han character

爝 (radical 86 火+18, 22 strokes, cangjie input 火月田戈 (FBWI), four-corner 9284₆)

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References

• KangXi: page 687, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19614
• Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2248, character 12
• Unihan data for U+721D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

爝 (Jyutping zoek6, Yale jeuk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

爝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: しゃく (shaku), さく (saku), しょう (shō)
• Kun: たいまつ (taimatsu)

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Mandarin

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simp. and trad.		爝

Hanzi

爝 (Pinyin jué (jue2), jiào (jiao4), Wade-Giles chüeh²,chiao⁴)

Noun

爝 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin jué or jiào)

1. (archaic) a torch made of bound reeds that was used for warding off evil spirits
2. (archaic) a small torch
   • circa 286 BCE, Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi

     日月出矣而爝火不息，其於光也，不亦難乎！

     If the sun and moon come out when one's own torch is not yet extinguished, would not its light pale in comparison?

3. (archaic) a small flame

References

• 1998, Hanyu Da Zidian (漢語大字典), Taipei: Jianhong Publishers (建宏出版社), ISBN 9578134789:

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Vietnamese

Han character

爝 (tước)

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