煜

yù
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 shining; brilliant
  2. 2 to illuminate

Examples

HSK 7-9
Rì yǐ yù hū zhòu, yuè yǐ yù hū yè.
The sun lights up the day, the moon lights up the night.

Tips

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

Components

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

Stroke Order

煜 yù