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曜
Mandarin · pinyin yào
Meanings
- bright
- glorious
- one of the seven planets of premodern astronomy
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- 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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4 · yao4
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- (literary) sunlight, daylight; brilliance
- (alt-of, alternative, literary) alternative form of 耀 (“to shine, illuminate; to display, flaunt”)
- (alt. form 耀) one of the seven luminaries (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn)
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