辉瑞
Huī​ruì

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辉 huī brightness Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 光 represents the meaning and 军 represents the sound. Simplified form of 輝.

Components

光
光 Meaning component
guāng light
军
军 Sound component
jūn army

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

瑞 ruì token made of jade, lucky, auspicious

Phonosemantic compound. 玉 represents the meaning and 耑 represents the sound.

Components

𤣩
𤣩 Meaning component
yù jade
耑
耑 Sound component
duān, zhuān tip, start, extremity
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzyweH[d]or-s jade tablet

說文解字

《說文》：“瑞，以玉為信也。从玉、耑。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

輝 huī brightness Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 光 represents the meaning and 軍 represents the sound.

Components

光
光 Meaning component
guāng light
軍
軍 Sound component
jūn army

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxjwɨjqʷʰərbrilliant
Zhengzhangqʰul
Unicodexiuəi

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang