燁

See also: 烨 and 爗

燁 U+71C1, 燁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71C1 ← 燀 [U+71C0] CJK Unified Ideographs 燂 → [U+71C2]

Translingual

Han character

燁 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火廿一十 (FTMJ), four-corner 9485₄, composition ⿰火華)

1. bright, glorious, splendid
2. flame

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 682, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19390
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2222, character 8
• Unihan data for U+71C1

Chinese

trad.		燁
simp.		烨
alternative forms		爗／烨 㷸 㒯／𱏩 𤑼 𤍞

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
曄	*ɢʷab, *ɢʷɯb
爗	*ɢʷab
燁	*ɢʷab, *ɢʷɯb
曅	*ɢʷrab
皣	*ɢʷrab
瞱	*ɢʷrab

Characters in the same phonetic series (曄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	燁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	葉 (156)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	筠輒切
Baxter	hjep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠiᴇp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚiɛp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiæp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦjiap̚/
Li Rong	/ɣjɛp̚/
Wang Li	/ɣĭɛp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jip6

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	燁	燁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yè	yè
Middle Chinese	‹ hip ›	‹ hjep ›
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷ(r)[ə]p/	/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)[a]p/
English	shine, gleam	gleam
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	燁	燁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14827	14832
Phonetic component	曄	曄
Rime group	盍	緝
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	曄	煜
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷab/	/*ɢʷɯb/
Notes	見漢賦	見漢賦

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yè (ye⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jip⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iap

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yè
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yè
    • Wade–Giles: yeh⁴
    • Yale: yè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeh
    • Palladius: е (je)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jip⁶
    • Yale: yihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːp̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iap
    • Tâi-lô: iap
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iab
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iap̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iap̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iap̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iap̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iap̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: hjep

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ɢʷ(r)[ə]p/, /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)[a]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷab/, /*ɢʷɯb/

Definitions

燁

1. (literary, of a flame) bright; magnificent; glorious

Synonyms

• 曄／晔 (yè)

Compounds

• 煒燁／炜烨
• 燁然／烨然 (yèrán)
• 燁煜／烨煜
• 燁燁／烨烨

 

Japanese

Kanji

燁

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. bright
2. glorious
3. splendid
4. flame

Readings

• On (unclassified): よう (yō)、ゆう (yū)、おう (ō)
• Kun: さかん (sakan, 燁ん)

Korean

Hanja

燁 (eumhun 빛날 엽 (binnal yeop))

1. shine
2. glorious
3. flash in rapid succession

Vietnamese

Han character

燁: Hán Nôm readings: diệp

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References

• Nom Foundation