輝

See also: 辉

Translingual

Etymology

光 + the sound 軍 (surround). Ray that is surrounding the centre. Its ending has changed into -r from -n.

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

輝 (simplified 辉, Yale fai1)

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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

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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Mandarin

Hanzi

輝 (simplified 辉, Pinyin huī (hui1), guō (guo1), huà (hua4), huì (hui4), Wade-Giles hui¹, kuo¹, hua⁴, hui⁴)

Compounds

• 輝煌

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Vietnamese

Han character

輝 (huy)