漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
暉: shine, light
JLPT N113 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
日 carries the meaning · 軍 is drawn in
13 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 旭暉きょっきrays of the rising sun
Also read かがやく, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The life-giving sun in the sky! This simple box was once a perfect circle, representing the regular rising and setting of the sun that marks the rhythm of our lives.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
軍
Also built on army (軍)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side暉 shine · 日 + 軍
vs軸 axis · 車 + 由In ChineseSimplified 晖 · traditional, as in Japanese · huī
Japan keeps the traditional form 暉; mainland China simplifies it to 晖.
- Simplified
- 晖 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 暉 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin huī 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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