光

光 (radical 10, 儿+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 火一山 (FMU), four-corner 9021₁, composition ⿱⺌兀)

• 硄

• KangXi: page 124, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1350
• Dae Jaweon: page 262, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 266, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5149

Historical forms of the character 光
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script j23048 j23049 j23050 j23051 j23052 j23053 j23054 j23055 j23056 j23057 j23058 j23059 j23060 j23061 j23062 Bronze inscriptions b14861 b14862 b14863 b14864 b14865 b14866 b14867 b14868 b14869 b14870 b14871 b14872 b14873 b14874 b14875 b14876 b14877 b14878 b14879 b14880 b14881 b14882 Small seal script s07367 Transcribed ancient scripts L32956 L32957 L32958 L32959 L32960 L32961 L32962 L10093 L10094 L10095 L10096 L10097 L10098 L10099 L10100 L10101 L10102 L10103 L10104 L10105 L10106 L10107 L10108 L10109 L10110 L10111 L10112 L10113
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 火 (“fire”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”) – fire over a person's head, emphasizing the shining of light (Shuowen).

光

1. light; beam; ray (Classifier: 束 m; 道 m)

   • 一束光透過門縫射進來。 [MSC, trad.]
     一束光透过门缝射进来。 [MSC, simp.]

     Yī shù guāng tòuguò ménféng shè jìnlái. [Pinyin]

     A beam of light shone through the door.

2. glory; pride

   台灣之光 / 台湾之光  ―  Táiwān zhī guāng  ―  the pride of Taiwan; someone who has brought glory to Taiwan

3. bright

   Antonyms: 暗 (àn), 黑 (hēi)

4. shiny
5. to make bare
6. only

   • 別光吃肉，吃點蔬菜吧。 [MSC, trad.]
     别光吃肉，吃点蔬菜吧。 [MSC, simp.]

     Bié guāng chī ròu, chī diǎn shūcài ba. [Pinyin]

     Don't eat only meat. Eat some vegetables.

7. Particle used after verbs to show exhaustion or completion. until none is left

   賣光了 / 卖光了  ―  mài guāng le  ―  completely sold out

   • 我已經用光了所有的錢 [MSC, trad.]
     我已经用光了所有的钱 [MSC, simp.]

     wǒ yǐjīng yòngguāng le suǒyǒu de qián [Pinyin]

     I've already used up all of my money

光

1. ^‡ to color

• “Entry #2065”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kun: ひかる (hikaru, 光る, Jōyō); ひかり (hikari); ひかり (hikari, 光り)
• Nanori: あき (aki); あきら (akira); こう (kō); てる (teru); ひこ (hiko); み (mi); みつ (mitsu)

⟨pi₁kari⟩ → /pikari/ → /fikari/ → /hikari/

From Old Japanese.

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 光る (hikaru, “to shine, to glitter, to gleam”).[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ひかり​ [hìkáríꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[3][2]
  • IPA^(key): [çi̥ka̠ɾʲi]

• 光り (less common)

光 (hiragana ひかり, rōmaji hikari)

1. a physically perceived light: a light, a gleam, shining, glittering

   ダイヤモンドの光 (ひかり)

   daiyamondo no hikari

   a diamond's glitter / shine / twinkling

2. a metaphorical light: glory, a glimmer, a gleam
   • 2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi; Yamada, Kotaro, “最さい終しゅう話わ　それぞれの道みちへ [Final Chapter: Epilog]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], volume 5 (fiction), Jump Remix edition, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 353:

     タニアの光 (ひかり)ティーナ

     Tania no Hikari Tīna

     Tiena, Light of Tania

   前 (ぜん)途 (と)に光 (ひかり)を失 (うしな)う

   zento ni hikari o ushinau

   to lose light regarding the future → future prospects grow dim

   解決 (かいけつ)への道 (みち)に光 (ひかり)を投 (な)げかける

   kaiketsu e no michi ni hikari o nagekakeru

   to shed light on the way to a solution

3. (in compounds) optics

   光 (ひかり)ファイバー

   hikari faibā

   optical fiber

光 (hiragana ひかり, rōmaji Hikari)

1. a place name, such as that of Hikari City in Yamaguchi Prefecture
2. one of the bullet train services running on the Tōkaido/Sanyō shinkansen
3. a surname​.
4. a female given name

• ぴかぴか (pikapika): glitteringly, sparklingly
• ぴかり (pikari): glitteringly, sparklingly
• ピカチュウ (Pikachū): Pikachu

Nominalization of the verb 光る (hikaru, “to shine, to glitter, to gleam”).

• (Irregular reading)
  • IPA^(key): [çika̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

光 (hiragana ひかる, rōmaji Hikaru)

1. A male given name

/kwau/ → /kwɔː/ → /kɔː/ → /koː/

From Middle Chinese 光 (kwang, “light, brightness”). Compare modern Mandarin guāng and Hakka kông, Min Nan kong.

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) こ​ー [kóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞ː]

光 (hiragana こう, rōmaji Kō, historical hiragana くわう)

1. A male given name

光 • (gwang) (hangeul 광)

1. light

光 (quang)

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