hào
adjective #37,802

Meanings

  1. 1 bright; luminous
  2. 2 white (esp. bright white teeth or white hair)
  3. 3 (bound form, literary)

Examples

Hào yuè dāng kōng.
A bright moon hangs in the sky.
Tā yǒu yì kǒu hào chǐ.
She has a row of brilliant white teeth.
Lǎorén hào shǒu bái xū.
The old man has snow-white hair and beard.

Tips

usage
is a bound morpheme — it doesn't stand alone. Common compounds: (bright moon), 齿 (white teeth), (white-haired, i.e. old age). Famous in Fan Zhongyan's 《岳阳》: (the bright moon shining a thousand li).
memory
= (white) + (gào, phonetic). Picture announcing () something white () — the moon, teeth, or aged hair. The component is your meaning anchor.

Stroke Order

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