光
光 — gwang
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 빛 광
- Romanization
- gwang
- English
- light, brilliant, shine; only
- Mandarin
- guāng
- Japanese on'yomi
- コウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ひか.る ひかり
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #527 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 儿 (10, 4 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5149
Parts that make up 光
How 光 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 光 as a ideographic compound involving 火, 卩.
Korean example words with 光
- 일광日光 Korean gloss: 해의 빛
- 검광劍光 Korean gloss: 칼날의 빛
- 광질光質 Korean gloss: 빛의 파장
- 등광燈光 Korean gloss: 등불의 빛
- 광망光芒 Korean gloss: 비치는 빛살
- 상광祥光 Korean gloss: 상서로운 빛
- 열광熱光 Korean gloss: 뜨거운 햇빛
- 자광慈光 Korean gloss: 자비로운 은혜
- 안광眼光 Korean gloss: 사물을 보는 힘
- 광채光彩 Korean gloss: 정기 있는 밝은 빛
- 무광無光 Korean gloss: 빛이나 광택이 없음
- 광변光變 Korean gloss: 빛에 의해 색이 변함
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 光
- 光ひかり light; illumination; ray
- 観光かんこう sightseeing; tourism
- 光景こうけい scene; spectacle; sight
- 日光にっこう sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams
- 脚光きゃっこう footlight; limelight
- 栄光えいこう glory
- 光栄こうえい honour; honor; glory
- 光線こうせん ray (of light); beam; light
- 光学こうがく optics
- 光沢こうたく brilliance; polish; lustre
- 光明こうみょう bright light; hope; bright future
- 電光でんこう lightning; electric illumination; light from an electric source
Characters sharing the phonetic 光
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “광”
Other hanja with radical 儿
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences