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爍

爍

See also: 烁

Translingual

Han character

爍 (radical 86 火+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 火女戈木 (FVID), four-corner 92894)

  1. shine, glitter, sparkle

References

  • KangXi: page 686, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19549
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2245, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+720D

Chinese

trad. 爍
simp. 烁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (樂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
樂 *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ
轢 *raːd, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
濼 *pqʰlaːwɢ, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ, *pqʰloːwɢ, *roːwɢ, *roːwɢ
躒 *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
擽 *rawɢ, *reːwɢ
爍 *qʰljawɢ
鑠 *qʰljawɢ
藥 *lawɢ
櫟 *lawɢ, *reːwɢ
纅 *lawɢ
礫 *reːwɢ
瓅 *reːwɢ
皪 *reːwɢ
觻 *reːwɢ, *roːwɢ
嚛 *qʰloːwɢ, *qʰloːwɢ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 爍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 藥 (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 書藥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕɨak̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiak̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 爍 爍
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shuò shuò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syak › ‹ syak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*r̥ewk/ (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing) /*r̥ewk/ (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing)
English melt, infuse shine (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 爍
Reading # 1/1
No. 7678
Phonetic
component		 樂
Rime
group		 藥
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 爍
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰljawɢ/

Definitions

爍

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Japanese

Kanji

爍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

爍 • ‎(sak) (hangeul 삭, revised sak, McCune-Reischauer sak, Yale sak)

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