爍

See also: 烁

Translingual

Han character

爍 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 火女戈木 (FVID), four-corner 9289₄, composition ⿰火樂)

1. shine, glitter, sparkle

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 686, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19549
• Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2245, character 15
• Unihan data for U+720D

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Chinese

trad.		爍
simp.		烁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (樂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
樂	*ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ
轢	*raːd, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
濼	*pqʰlaːwɢ, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ, *pqʰloːwɢ, *roːwɢ, *roːwɢ
躒	*raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
擽	*rawɢ, *reːwɢ
爍	*qʰljawɢ
鑠	*qʰljawɢ
藥	*lawɢ
櫟	*lawɢ, *reːwɢ
纅	*lawɢ
礫	*reːwɢ
瓅	*reːwɢ
皪	*reːwɢ
觻	*reːwɢ, *roːwɢ
嚛	*qʰloːwɢ, *qʰloːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuò, luò (shuo⁴, luo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛˋ, ㄌㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soek³ / lik¹ / lok⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siok / siak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): iag⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuò
    • Wade–Giles: shuo⁴
    • Yale: shwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuoh
    • Palladius: шо (šo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luò
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luò
    • Wade–Giles: lo⁴
    • Yale: lwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luoh
    • Palladius: ло (lo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: soek³ / lik¹ / lok⁶
    • Yale: seuk / līk / lohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soek⁸ / lik⁷ / lok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêg³ / lig¹ / log⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːk̚³/, /lɪk̚⁵/, /lɔːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok
    • Tâi-lô: siok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /siak̚³²/

Note: siok/siak - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: iag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iak̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: syak

Rime
Character	爍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	書藥切
Baxter	syak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨak̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiak̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	soek3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*r̥ewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰljawɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	爍	爍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shuò	shuò
Middle Chinese	‹ syak ›	‹ syak ›
Old Chinese	/*r̥ewk/ (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing)	/*r̥ewk/ (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing)
English	melt, infuse	shine (v.)
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	爍
Reading #	1/1
No.	7678
Phonetic component	樂
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	爍
Old Chinese	/*qʰljawɢ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 爍

1. to glisten; to glimmer
2. bright; brilliant
3. hot
4. to roast; to broil
5. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 鑠／铄 (shuò, “to melt by heat”).

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Japanese

Kanji

爍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: とかす (tokasu)

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Korean

Hanja

爍 • (sak) (hangeul 삭, revised sak, McCune–Reischauer sak, Yale sak)

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