shuò

shine

The happy light of a flame 

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

乐 meaning component

  Meaning component

yuè

  

happy

Evolution

烁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
烁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
烁 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
烁 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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shuò

shine, glitter, sparkle; bright; luminous

Most common words with 烁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

闪烁

flickering

bright

闪烁其词

to speak evasively (idiom); beating about the bush

震古烁今

glorious and world-shattering

闪烁体

scintillator

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5537% of movies

3051st most common character in movies

2702nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+70C1


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