熒

See also: 荧
熒 U+7192, 熒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7192
← 熑
[U+7191] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 熓 →
[U+7193]

Translingual

Han character

熒 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火火月火 (FFBF) or 難火火月火 (XFFBF), four-corner 99809, composition ⿱𤇾火)

Derived characters

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 679, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19304
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1091, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2225, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7192

Chinese
trad. 熒
simp. 荧

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 熒
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (熒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鶯 *qreːŋ
罃 *qreːŋ
嫈 *qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ
褮 *qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ
覮 *pqʰʷeːŋ
謍 *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ
䁝 *qʷraːŋʔ
嶸 *ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ
嵤 *ɢʷreːŋ
榮 *ɢʷreŋ
瑩 *ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs
蠑 *ɢʷreŋ
禜 *ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs
醟 *ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs
檾 *kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
煢 *ɡʷeŋ
焭 *ɡʷeŋ
縈 *qʷeŋ
營 *ɢʷeŋ
鎣 *ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs
塋 *ɢʷeŋ
濴 *ɢʷeŋ
熒 *ɡʷeːŋ
螢 *ɡʷeːŋ
滎 *ɡʷeːŋ
濙 *qʷeːŋʔ
瀅 *qʷeːŋs

Pictogram (象形) – The protoform is 𤇾. 𤇾 is a pictogram of two intersecting torches, meaning the fire light. In Qin and Han, the crossing of the torches "乂" became "冂", and "𤇾" is no longer used as independent character as a third "火" (fire) was added into "𤇾". Thus, "熒" was formed.

Etymology

熒 (OC wêŋ) belongs to a word-family whose stem is *weŋ "bright, dazzle", which converges with 瞬 (OC *win) "to move the eyes" (Schuessler, 2007). Other items in the same word-family are:

  • 眩 (OC wîn(s)?, “troubled sight, deluded, deceive”),
  • 炫 (OC wîns, “bright, dazzle, show off”),
  • 瑩 (OC wreŋ, “bright, color of jade > kind of gem”)
  • 熲 (OC kwêŋʔ, “light, flame, blaze”), which is 熒 (OC wêŋ) with *k- nominalizer.
  • 榮 (OC wreŋ, “flower > flowering, prosperity > glory”), which is the same word as 熒 (OC wêŋ).

This word-family could be Proto-Sino-Tibetan and related to Mizo ven & veng (“to be open; to be unobstructed by trees, clouds, etc; to be clear; to be free of clouds; to be bright (as weather)”) (ibid.).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 熒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 青 (126)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 戸扃切
Baxter hweng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦweŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwɛjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣueŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ɣiweŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣiweŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xióng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 wing4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 熒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yíng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hweng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[N]-qʷˁeŋ/
English dazzle

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 熒
Reading # 1/1
No. 15386
Phonetic
component		 熒
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 熒
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷeːŋ/

Definitions

熒

  1. luminous; fluorescent
  2. to shine; to shimmer; to dazzle

Compounds

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji
熒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Alternative form of 螢 (luminous, fluorescent)

Readings

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 熒 • (hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune–Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

  1. lamplight
  2. the glow of a firefly
  3. shine

Vietnamese

Han character

熒: Hán Nôm readings: huỳnh

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