燁

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See also: 烨, and 爗
燁 U+71C1, 燁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71C1
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 燂 →

Translingual

Han character

燁 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火廿一十 (FTMJ), four-corner 94854, composition ⿰火華)

  1. bright, glorious, splendid
  2. flame

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 682, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19390
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2222, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+71C1

Chinese

trad. 燁
simp. 烨
alternative forms 爗／烨
㷸
㒯／𱏩
𤑼
𤍞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (曄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
曄 *ɢʷab, *ɢʷɯb
爗 *ɢʷab
燁 *ɢʷab, *ɢʷɯb
曅 *ɢʷrab
皣 *ɢʷrab
瞱 *ɢʷrab

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 燁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 葉 (156)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 筠輒切
Baxter hjep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠiᴇp̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦᵚiɛp̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣiæp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦjiap̚/
Li
Rong 		/ɣjɛp̚/
Wang
Li 		/ɣĭɛp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯ɛp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jip6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 燁 燁
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yè yè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hip › ‹ hjep ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷ(r)p/ /*ʷ(r)p/
English shine, gleam gleam

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 燁 燁
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14827 14832
Phonetic
component 		曄 曄
Rime
group 		盍 緝
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		曄 煜
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷab/ /*ɢʷɯb/
Notes 見漢賦 見漢賦

Definitions

燁

  1. (literary, of a flame) bright; magnificent; glorious

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

燁

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. bright
  2. glorious
  3. splendid
  4. flame

Readings

  • On (unclassified): よう (yō)、ゆう (yū)、おう (ō)
  • Kun: さかん (sakan, 燁ん)

Korean

Hanja

燁 (eumhun 빛날 엽 (binnal yeop))

  1. shine
  2. glorious
  3. flash in rapid succession

Vietnamese

Han character

燁: Hán Nôm readings: diệp

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References

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