adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 shining; brilliant (literary)
  2. 2 to illuminate (literary)

Examples

Rì yǐ yù hū zhòu, yuè yǐ yù hū yè.
The sun lights up the day, the moon lights up the night.

Tips

history
is rarely used alone in modern Chinese. It meant blazing or shining bright; today it survives mostly in given names and the literary reduplication (dazzlingly bright).
register
Literary and onomastic; everyday Chinese uses 明亮 or 照耀.

Components

radical
huǒ
fire
(fire) is the meaning radical, fitting because the word describes blazing brightness and light.
phonetic
sunlight; bright
supplies both the sound yù and a reinforcing sense of sunlit brightness.

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