亮
Meanings
- bright; light
- to shine; to flash
- loud and clear
- to show (one's passport etc); to make public (one's views etc)
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- 亮
- liàng · bright, brilliant, radiant, light
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4 · liang4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
loeng6
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character · Etymology 1
- (alt. form 倞) bright; brilliant; radiant
- loud and clear
- (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Wu, Xiang) lamp; light
- to shine; to illuminate
- (neologism) to be the highlight; to be epic
- to make one's voice loud and clear; to raise one's voice
- to reveal; to disclose
- a surname
character · Etymology 2
- (Hakka) smooth and shiny
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