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熒

熒

See also: 荧

Translingual

Han character

熒 (radical 86 火+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火火月火 (FFBF) or X火火月火 (XFFBF), four-corner 99809, composition ⿱𤇾火)

  1. shine, shimmer
  2. to shine, shimmer
  3. shining, dazzling

References

  • KangXi: page 679, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19304
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1091, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2225, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7192

Chinese

trad. 熒
simp. 荧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (熒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鶯 *qreːŋ
罃 *qreːŋ
嫈 *qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ
褮 *qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ
覮 *pqʰʷeːŋ
謍 *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ
䁝 *qʷraːŋʔ
嶸 *ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ
嵤 *ɢʷreːŋ
榮 *ɢʷreŋ
瑩 *ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs
蠑 *ɢʷreŋ
禜 *ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs
醟 *ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs
檾 *kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
煢 *ɡʷeŋ
焭 *ɡʷeŋ
縈 *qʷeŋ
營 *ɢʷeŋ
鎣 *ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs
塋 *ɢʷeŋ
濴 *ɢʷeŋ
熒 *ɡʷeːŋ
螢 *ɡʷeːŋ
滎 *ɡʷeːŋ
濙 *qʷeːŋʔ
瀅 *qʷeːŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 焱 ‎(“lamps and candlelight”) + 冂 ‎(“roof”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 熒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 青 (126)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 戸扃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦweŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwɛjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣueŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ɣiweŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣiweŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xióng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 熒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yíng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hweng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[N]-qʷˤeŋ/
English dazzle

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 熒
Reading # 1/1
No. 15386
Phonetic
component		 熒
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 熒
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷeːŋ/

Definitions

熒

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Japanese

Kanji

熒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. shine
  2. shimmer
  3. shining
  4. dazzling

Readings

Korean

Hanja

熒 • ‎(hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune-Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

  1. lamplight
  2. the glow of a firefly
  3. shine

Vietnamese

Han character

熒 (huỳnh)

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