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烁

shuò

HSK 6 Character Traditional 爍

What 烁 means

1. bright
2. luminous

Example sentences

• 阳光在湖面上闪烁。
  Sunlight sparkled on the lake.
• 无数星星在天上闪烁。
  Wúshù xīngxing zài tiānshàng shǎnshuò.
  Countless stars were twinkling in the sky.
• 我只能看到闪烁的灯光。
  All I could see was the flickering lights.
• 她的眼睛闪烁着喜悦的光芒。
  Tā de yǎnjing shǎnshuò zhe xǐyuè de guāngmáng.
  Her eyes were shining with joy.
• 当她看到妈妈没在生她的气，她的双眼因为幸福而闪烁了。
  Dāng tā kàn dào māma méi zài shēng tā de qì, tā de shuāngyǎn yīnwèi xìngfú ér shǎnshuò le.
  Her eyes shone with joy when she saw that her mother was not mad at her.
• 这女孩的眼睛闪烁着光亮, 这个暗示让她可爱的猫图案自动铅笔越过了她的笔记本。
  Zhè nǚhái de yǎnjing shǎnshuò zhe guāngliàng, zhège ànshì ràng tā kě'ài de māo tú'àn zìdòngqiānbǐ yuèguò le tā de bǐjìběn.
  The girl, her eyes shining brightly from that single hint, makes her cute cat-motif automatic pencil run across her notebook.

Words starting with 烁

• 烁烁shuò shuòflickering; glittering

Words containing 烁

• 闪烁shǎn shuòto glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate
• 闪烁体shǎn shuò tǐ(physics) scintillator
• 金光闪烁jīn guāng shǎn shuòspangle
• 闪烁其词shǎn shuò qí cíto speak evasively (idiom); beating about the bush
• 震古烁今zhèn gǔ shuò jīn(lit.) to astonish the ancients and dazzle contemporaries (idiom)…
• 熠烁yì shuòto twinkle; to glimmer; to glisten

Characters built on 乐

These share the phonetic component 乐 (lè), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 泺luòname of a river
• 铄shuòbright; to melt; to fuse

Characters that look like 烁

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 账zhàngaccount; bill; debt
• 殊shū(literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass; (bound form) different…
• 抵dǐto press against; to support; to prop up; to resist; to withstand; to be equal to…
• 炼liànto refine; to smelt
• 烛zhúcandle; (literary) to illuminate
• 殇shāngto die in childhood; war dead

Sounds the same

Read shuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 硕(bound form) large; big; (bound form) master's degree (abbr. for 硕士
• 朔beginning; first day of lunar month; north
• 数(literary) frequently; repeatedly
• 搠daub; thrust
• 铄bright; to melt; to fuse
• 槊long lance
• 妁(literary) matchmaker (on the bride's side)
• 蒴pod; capsule
• 欶to suck; to drink
• 矟lance
• 箾to hit sb with a pole; (archaic) pole held by a dancer