bǐng
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) bright; brilliant; glorious

Examples

Nán Sòng mò dài huángdì de míngzi jiào Zhào Bǐng.
The last Song emperor's given name was Bing, written with this character meaning "bright".

Tips

history
Not used as a common word in modern Chinese; 明亮 covers 'bright'. It survives mainly as a name character, as in the last Southern Song emperor , and is a variant of .
register
Archaic and onomastic only — seen in classical texts and personal names, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
sun
The sun radical on top supplies the meaning directly — sunlight, hence bright and glorious.
phonetic
bǐng
the 3rd heavenly stem; here phonetic
The lower supplies the sound bǐng exactly, the same phonetic seen in (also 'bright') and .

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Stroke Order

bǐng