adjective #35,003

Meanings

  1. 1 bright
  2. 2 radiant
  3. 3 sparkling (literary)

Examples

Tā gěi érzi qǔ míng jiào Yè, xīwàng tā qiántú guāngmíng.
He named his son Ye, hoping his future would be bright.
Dēnghuǒ yèyè, zhàoliàngle zhěng tiáo jiē.
The lights blazed brilliantly, lighting up the whole street.

Tips

register
Almost never appears in everyday speech. You'll mostly meet as an element in given names — parents pick it for the auspicious 'radiant' meaning. The historian Fan Ye (398-445) compiled 《》 (Book of the Later Han).
memory
(sun) on the left + (splendid) on the right → 'splendor of the sun' = bright.

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