輝

See also: 辉

Translingual

Etymology

Semantic 光 ("light; bright") + phonetic 軍.

Han character

輝 (radical 159 車+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火山月十十 (FUBJJ), four-corner 9725₆, composition ⿰光軍)

1. brightness, lustre, brilliance

References

• KangXi: page 1244, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38372
• Dae Jaweon: page 1721, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3538, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8F1D

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Chinese

trad.		輝
simp.		辉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huī (hui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fai¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fî
• Min Nan (POJ): hui

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huī
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: hui¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huei
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fai¹
    • Yale: fāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fai¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fɐi̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fî
    • Hakka Romanization System: fi´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fi¹
    • IPA: /fi²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hui
    • Tâi-lô: hui
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huy
    • IPA (Taipei): /hui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /hʉi/▼

Rime
Character	輝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許歸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hʉi/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɨi/
Shao Rongfen	/xiuəi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huj/
Li Rong	/xiuəi/
Wang Li	/xĭwəi/
Bernard Karlgren	/xwe̯i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hēi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*qʷʰər/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰul/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	輝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huī
Middle Chinese	‹ xjwɨj ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰər/
English	brilliant
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	輝
Reading #	1/1
No.	7304
Phonetic component	軍
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	揮
Old Chinese	/*qʰul/
Notes	同煇

Definitions

輝

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Compounds

• 輝光／辉光
• 輝映／辉映

• 輝煌／辉煌 (huīhuáng)
• 輝照／辉照

• 輝石／辉石
• 輝耀／辉耀

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Japanese

Kanji

輝

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• Kun: かがやく (kagayaku), かがやき (kagayaki), かがやかしい (kagayakashii)

Compounds

• 輝映
• 輝赫
• 輝煥
• 輝輝
• 輝光
• 輝煌
• 輝耀
• 輝星

Proper noun

輝 ‎(hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

輝 • ‎(hwi) (hangeul 휘, revised hwi, McCune-Reischauer hwi, Yale hwi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

輝 (huy)

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