càn
adjective #31,735

Meanings

  1. 1 bright
  2. 2 brilliant
  3. 3 resplendent

Examples

Tā xiào de hěn càn.
Her smile is dazzling.
Yángguāng cànlàn, zhèng shì chūyóu de hǎo tiānqì.
The sunshine is brilliant — perfect weather for an outing.

Tips

usage
almost always appears in the compound 灿烂 (cànlàn, brilliant/splendid). On its own it's mostly used as a name character or in literary fragments. The traditional form has the (fire) radical highlighting the 'glow' meaning.

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