漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
光: ray, light
JLPT N36 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
- ⺌small(meaning)
- 兀(form)
⺌ carries the meaning · 兀 is drawn in
6 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 光線こうせんlight ray
- 光景こうけいscene, spectacle
- 光年こうねんlight year
- 日光にっこうsunlight
- 月光げっこうmoonlight
- 栄光えいこうglory
- 観光するかんこうするgo sightseeing
- 発光するはっこうするluminescence, radiation
ひかるhikaru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 光るひかるshine [v.i.]
ひかりhikari · kun'yomi
- 光ひかりlight [n.]
- 稲光いなびかり(flash of) lightning
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)火 fire + 卩 kneeling person
Fire over a person's head, emphasizing the shining of light (Shuowen).
Source: Wiktionary, 光 (rev. 93136216), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Fire (火) + legs (儿). Imagine a mysterious person with "legs" made of pure fire—someone who radiates a powerful "light" or glow from their very foundation.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
兀
Also built on 兀
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · guāng
Same form: 光 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 光 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 光 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guāng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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