輝

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See also: 辉
輝 U+8F1D, 輝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F1D
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 輞 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

trad. 輝
simp. 辉*
alternative forms 煇
灳 ancient
𤐕
𪏕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 輝
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (軍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
揮 *qʰul
輝 *qʰul
翬 *qʰul
暉 *qʰul
煇 *qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
楎 *qʰul, *ɡuːn
瀈 *qʰul
韗 *qʰons, *ɢuns
褌 *kuːn
鶤 *kuːn, *ɢuns
緷 *kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
睴 *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
璭 *kuːns
瘒 *ŋɡuːn
顐 *ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
諢 *ŋɡuːns
餫 *ɡuːn, *ɢuns
渾 *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
琿 *ɡuːn
鼲 *ɡuːn
堚 *ɡuːn
鯶 *ɡuːnʔ
軍 *kun
皸 *kun, *kuns
齳 *ŋɡunʔ
喗 *ŋɡunʔ
葷 *qʰun
惲 *qunʔ
賱 *qunʔ
運 *ɢuns
暈 *ɢuns
鄆 *ɢuns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰul) : semantic 光 (“light; bright”) + phonetic 軍 (OC *kun).

Pronunciation

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
Baxter xjw+j
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 		huī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fai1
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. * 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

  1. brightness; lustre; brilliance; radiance; splendour
  2. to shine upon

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

輝

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

輝(あきら) • (Akira) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 輝 (MC xjw+j).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

輝 (eumhun 빛날 휘 (binnal hwi))

  1. Hanja form? of 휘 (“shine; brightness”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

輝: Hán Nôm readings: huy

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