càn

gems

The luster  of a gem  also provides the pronunciation

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

粲 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

càn

  

polish

Evolution

璨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
璨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

càn

gems; luster of gems; lustrous; gem; luster of gem

Most common words with 璨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

璀璨

bright

璀璨夺目

dazzling (idiom)

gem

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4638th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+74A8

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“璨,玉光也。从玉,粲聲。”


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