暉

See also: 晖 and 日軍

暉 U+6689, 暉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6689 ← 暈 [U+6688] CJK Unified Ideographs 暊 → [U+668A]

Translingual

Han character

暉 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日月十十 (ABJJ), four-corner 6705₆, composition ⿰日軍)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 497, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14038
• Dae Jaweon: page 865, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1526, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6689

Chinese

trad.		暉
simp.		晖
alternative forms		睴／𬑕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 暉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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 日 (“Sun”) + phonetic 軍 (OC *kun).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huī (hui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huī
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huei
    • Wade–Giles: hui¹
    • Yale: hwēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huei
    • Palladius: хуэй (xuej)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fai¹
    • Yale: fāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐi̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xjw+j

Rime
Character	暉
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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰər/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰul/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	暉
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	暉
Reading #	1/1
No.	7306
Phonetic component	軍
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	揮
Old Chinese	/*qʰul/
Notes	同輝

Definitions

暉

1. ^† sunlight; sunshine

Compounds

• 三春暉／三春晖 (sānchūnhuī)
• 吳稚暉／吴稚晖
• 夕暉／夕晖
• 夕陽餘暉／夕阳余晖
• 寸草春暉／寸草春晖
• 慈暉／慈晖
• 斜暉／斜晖 (xiéhuī)
• 春暉／春晖 (chūnhuī)
• 暉映／晖映 (huīyìng)
• 暉暉／晖晖
• 朝暉／朝晖 (zhāohuī)
• 落暉／落晖
• 餘暉／余晖 (yúhuī)
• 馳暉／驰晖
• 鮑令暉／鲍令晖

 

Japanese

Kanji

暉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. light, shine

Readings

• Go-on: き (ki)^{←き (ki, historical)←くゐ (kwi, ancient)}
• Kan-on: き (ki)^{←き (ki, historical)←くゐ (kwi, ancient)}
• Kun: かがやく (kagayaku, 暉く)

Compounds

Compounds

• 暉暉(きき) (kiki)
• 旭暉(きょっき) (kyokki)
• 國暉(こっき) (Kokki)
• 斜暉(しゃき) (shaki)
• 清(せい)暉(き) (seiki)
• 夕暉(せっき) (sekki)
• 朝暉(ちょうき) (chōki)
• 落暉(らっき) (rakki)

Korean

Hanja

暉 (eumhun 빛 휘 (bit hwi))

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References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 暉

Vietnamese

Han character

暉: Hán Việt readings: huy
暉: Nôm readings: hoe, huy

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References

• Nom Foundation