Help with kanji meaning

7 comments

1. This is 99.99% not a Kanji. I need you to tell me the context before I can help you.

2. The only place i can find it is https://kanji.jitenon.jp/kanjiy/16055.html meaning “光る。輝く。”

   May not be a Japanese kanji since it doesn’t seem to be in any dictionary nor is it in kanken

3. I couldn’t find it in any Japanese dictionary on the internet. The closest is 姚 which means beautiful.
   Reading of 姚：うつくしい

4. Meanings of Japanese kanji are derivative of Chinese, sometimes the shifts occur to the point meaning changes, but that’s only for commonly used characters
   For rarely used ones, Japanese dictionaries will just copy the definition from older classical Chinese dictionaries, so the meaning is “light”.

5. I used the Radical Lookup section of <mdbg. net> to find the hanzi character you’re looking for, and it told me the Japanese name was “hikaru,” a verb form.

   I know that kanji, but to be sure, I checked your 2nd link (the Duhoc… one). I read the definition (bright (light)) and scrolled to the “Japanese” section of that page and saw the kunyomi reading was hikaru.

   The kanji is for “hikari.” It means light, hope, happiness, etc. It looks like this: 光

   The Duhoc… link you posted shows the traditional and simplified Chinese character. The traditional has “arms” up like in the kanji. Just thought that was interesting, lol.

   Hope that helped!

6. I’ve never seen this character before, but I looked it up and it’s onyomi ヨウ, kunyomi ひかる, same as 光. It doesn’t have a single entry as part of any word in a very extensive dictionary. I don’t imagine it’s really used in Japanese at all. There are tens of thousands of kanji that are in dictionaries but are not actually used in any real capacity.

7. On a Casio N9800 “electronic dictionary”, we see only one entry, which is in the 新漢語林 (basic technical information such as: 10 strokes, JIS 4157,7971, Chinese pronunciation, etc.)