炳
bǐng

bright

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 丙 represents the sound.

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
丙
丙 Sound component
bǐng third

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangpraŋʔ
Unicodebiæ̌ng

說文解字

明也。从火丙聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)