炘 · xīn
brilliant, shining, bright
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
brilliant, shining, bright
- Mandarin
- xīn
- Cantonese
- jan1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 炘 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 흔
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7098
- Radical
- 火 · 86
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 炘
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- xjɨn · 許斤 反切 · #464
- Middle Chinese
- xjɨnH · 香靳 反切 · #2588
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 3939 · xjɨn = 臻開三平欣曉 · xjɨnH = 臻開三去欣曉
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- xīn
- kCantonese
- jan1
- kDefinition
- brilliant, shining, bright
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 86.4
- kTGH
- 2013:4006
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xīn 1284.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- xīn 407.070
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 許斤 香靳
- Kangxi positions
- 0667.230
- Guangyun positions
- 112.19 397.02
- Cangjie
- FHML
- Four-corner
- 9282.1