Guì / jiǒng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a surname

Examples

Guì xiānsheng shì yí wèi yǒumíng de diànshì zhǔchírén.
Mr. Gui is a well-known television host.

Tips

register
As a surname is read Guì, a different reading from the literary jiǒng ("bright"). The best-known bearer is the entertainer He Jiong, though his given name uses a different character; the surname Guì itself is uncommon.

Components

radical
huǒ
fire
is the fire radical at the bottom. A flame as bright as the sun above it produces the "shining" sense of .
semantic
sun
is the sun, sitting on top. Sun above fire gives the combined idea of brilliant light in .

Stroke Order

Guì