| 炯 | |||
| bright, brilliant, clear; hot | |||
| Radical | 火灬 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 5 | Total Strokes | 9 |
| Mandarin reading | jiǒng | Cantonese reading | gwing2 |
| Japanese on reading | kei kyou | Japanese kun reading | akiraka |
| Korean reading | hyeng | Vietnamese reading | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 烱 | ||
| 炯 | [ jiǒng ] bright, clear |
| 炯炯 | [ jiǒng jiǒng ] bright (eyes), shining |
| 炯炯有神 | [ jiǒng jiǒng yoǔ shén ] eyes bright and full of expression |
| ⇒ 楊炯 | [ yáng jiǒng ] Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 jie2] |
| ⇒ 炯炯 | [ jiǒng jiǒng ] bright (eyes), shining |
| ⇒ 炯炯有神 | [ jiǒng jiǒng yoǔ shén ] eyes bright and full of expression |
| ⇒ 陳炯明 | [ chén jiǒng míng ] Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong |