DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

容光煥發

简容光焕发 · 繁容光煥發

Mandarin · pinyin róng guāng huàn fā

face glowing (idiom); looking radiant
all smiles

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

容: róng · looks, appearance; figure, form
光: guāng · light, brilliant, shine; only
煥: Look up this written character
發: fā · issue, dispatch, send out, emit
焕: huàn · shining
发: fā · issue, dispatch, send out; hair

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–1–4–1 · rong2 guang1 huan4 fa1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

5character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

容光煥發 · find source passages ↗ · 容光焕发 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

jung4 gwong1 wun6 faat3

Cantonese word readings for 容光煥發. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

phrase

(of one's face) to glow with vigour and joy

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack