曜

曜 · yào

glorious, as sun; daylight, sunlight; one of the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
yào
Cantonese
jiu6
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

glorious, as sun; daylight, sunlight; one of the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)

Dictionary definitions & readings

曜 yào · bright; glorious; one of the seven planets of premodern astronomy

CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · 2026-10-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
21540.050:yào Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
1345.010:yào Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
428.170:yào Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
yào粵jiu6 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
ヨウ かがやく Source property ↗
Korean · Hangul
요:0N Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
弋照 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
ASMG Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
6701.4 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
0501.110 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
413.46 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
1124i Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+66DC
Radical
日 · 72
Strokes
18
Residual strokes
14
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 2 · #6331

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

18 strokes
曜
Strokes
18
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

18 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
yewH · 弋照 · 效開三去宵以 · #2768

PHONO-ML, source line 15140; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
647.603
kCowles
1407
kDaeJaweon
0871.200
kFennIndex
619.05 655.02
kGSR
1124i
kHanYu
21540.050
kIRGDaeJaweon
0871.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21540.050
kIRGKangXi
0501.110
kKangXi
0501.110
kMatthews
7305
kMorohashi
14227' 14227':E0102 14227:E0103
kNelson
2112 2162
kSBGY
413.46
kSMSZD2003Index
296.12
kCangjie
ASMG
kFenn
57H
kFourCornerCode
6701.4
kMojiJoho
MJ013454 MJ013454:E0102 MJ013453:E0103
kPhonetic
1327
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRG_GSource
G0-6A57
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C260
kIRG_JSource
J0-4D4B
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-FAA9
kIRG_KSource
K0-6878
kIRG_TSource
T1-764C
kRSUnicode
72.14
kTotalStrokes
18
kBigFive
C260
kCCCII
39525B
kCNS1986
1-764C
kCNS1992
1-764C
kEACC
4B525B
kGB0
7455
kGB1
7455
kJis0
4543
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kMainlandTelegraph
2565
kTGH
2013:6331
kTaiwanTelegraph
2565
kXerox
263:133
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+3893+72.4.14 V+14077+72.4.14 V+20141+72.4.5 V+20141+96.5.4
kCantonese
jiu6
kDefinition
glorious, as sun; daylight, sunlight; one of the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)
kFanqie
弋照
kHangul
요:0N
kHanyuPinyin
21540.050:yào
kJapanese
ヨウ かがやく
kJapaneseKun
HIKARI KAGAYAKU
kJapaneseOn
YOU
kKorean
YO
kMandarin
yào
kSMSZD2003Readings
yào粵jiu6
kTGHZ2013
428.170:yào
kTang
iɛ̀u
kXHC1983
1345.010:yào
kSemanticVariant
U+71FF<kCowles U+8000<kCowles U+2EC9D

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Structure & connections

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12dictionary records using 曜0forms using this shape1attributed sound links
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Shape description
日 beside 翟 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿰日翟$(GHTKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿰日翟$(GHTKP)

^⿰日⿱⿰𫜹𫜹隹$(J)

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