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敫

jiǎo
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to shine; flowing light (archaic); a surname

Examples

HSK 5
他的演讲很激动人心。
Tā de yǎnjiǎng hěn jīdòng rénxīn.
His speech really stirred everyone up.

Tips

history
敫 ('flowing light') is archaic and, apart from rare surname use, not used independently today. It survives as the phonetic in 激 (to stir up / intense), 缴 (to hand over / pay), 檄 (proclamation of war), and 邀 (to invite).

Components

semantic
白 bái
white; brightness
The 'white / bright' element on the left anchors the 'shining light' sense of 敫.
semantic
放 fàng
to release; to send out
The 'release' element on the right adds the idea of light streaming outward, completing the 'flowing radiance' picture of 敫.

Filed under radical 攴 (pū, #66) by convention. 攴 is not a separate component in 敫, so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

敫 jiǎo