煌熠 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

huángyì

brilliant

huáng bright

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

Components

火 Meaning component

huǒ fire

皇 Sound component

huáng royal

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

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 Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hwang	[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ	brilliant; 敦煌 Dūnhuáng
Zhengzhang		ɡʷaːŋ
Unicode	huɑng

說文解字

煌，煇也。从火皇聲。

Sources

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

yì bright and sparkling

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

Components

火 Meaning component

huǒ fire

習 Sound component

xí to practice

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	ɢrub
	lub

說文解字

盛光也。从火習聲。《詩》曰：“熠熠宵行。”

Sources

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