曜
yào

glorious

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Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 耀 represents the sound.

Components

日
日 Meaning component
耀
耀 SoundMeaningRemnant component

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartyewHlewk-s shine

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica