光斑

guāngbān
noun #67,592

Meanings

  1. 1 spot of light
  2. 2 bright spot
  3. 3 facula (astronomy)

Examples

Yángguāng tòuguò shùyè zài dì shàng tóu xià diǎndiǎn guāngbān.
Sunlight through the leaves cast scattered spots of light on the ground.
Tiānwénxuéjiā guāncè dào le tàiyáng biǎomiàn de guāngbān.
Astronomers observed faculae on the sun's surface.

Tips

usage
Two registers: in everyday writing it's a poetic 'patch of light' (sunlight through leaves, reflections on water). In astronomy it's the technical term for 'facula' — the bright regions on the sun's photosphere near sunspots.

Stroke Order

guāng
bān