輝

See also: 辉

輝	U+8F1D, 輝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F1D

← 輜
[U+8F1C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

輞 →
[U+8F1E]

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

𦇊

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huī (hui¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fai¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): fî

(Meixian, Guangdong): fi¹
Eastern Min (BUC): hŭi
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hui

(Teochew, Peng'im): hui¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹hue

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/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fî
  - Hakka Romanization System: fi^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fi¹
  - Sinological IPA: /fi²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: fi¹
  - Sinological IPA: /fi⁴⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hŭi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hui⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hui
  - Tâi-lô: hui
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hui³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hui⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hui¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hui
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hui³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹hue
  - MiniDict: hue^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹hue
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /hue⁵³/

Middle Chinese: xjw+j

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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xwe̯i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fai¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰər/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰul/

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. [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	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

brightness; lustre; brilliance; radiance; splendour
to shine upon

Compounds

References

“輝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

輝

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

Go-on: け (ke)
Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
Kun: かがやく (kagayaku, 輝く, Jōyō)、かがやかしい (kagayakashii, 輝かしい)、てる (teru, 輝る)
Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)、てる (teru)、ひかる (hikaru)

Compounds

Proper noun

Kanji in this term
輝
あきら Grade: S
nanori

輝(あきら) • (Akira)

a male given name

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 輝 (MC xjw+j).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

輝

Wikisource

輝 (eumhun 빛날 휘 (binnal hwi))

hanja form^? of 휘 (“shine; brightness”)

Compounds

광휘 (光輝, gwanghwi)
여휘 (餘輝, yeohwi)
휘광 (輝光, hwigwang)
휘도 (輝度, hwido, “luminance; brightness”)
휘석 (輝石, hwiseok, “pyroxene”)
휘선 (輝線, hwiseon)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

輝: Hán Nôm readings: huy

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