晃
huànghuǎng HSK7

bright

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 光 represents the sound. Simplified form of 㨪.

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
光
光 Sound component
guāng light

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 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
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

幌

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡʷaːŋʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica