亮
liàng HSK2

bright

亮 liàng
shine verb
to shine; to flash; to light up

天渐渐亮了，我们可以出发了。

tiān jiàn​jiàn liàng le, wǒ​men kě​yǐ chū​fā le.

It's gradually getting light; we can set out now.

bright adjective
bright; light

屋子里很亮。

wū​zi lǐ hěn liàng.

The room is very bright.

resonant adjective
loud and clear (especially of a voice)

他的嗓音真亮。

tā de sǎng​yīn zhēn liàng.

His voice is really clear and resonant.

show verb
to show (one's passport, etc.); to reveal or make public (one's views, cards, etc.)

他进站时向工作人员亮了一下自己的身份证。

tā jìn​zhàn shí xiàng gōng​zuò rén​yuán liàng le yī​xià zì​jǐ de shēn​fèn​zhèng.

He flashed his ID card to the staff as he entered the station.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
840th most common 212.0 per million
Movie subtitles
482nd most common 302.2 per million appears in 71% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
34.7 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
106.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+4EAE

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)