炳
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bright; brilliant; luminous
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 火 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 炳
- Common rank
- #3,188
- Unicode
- U+70B3
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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Words with 炳
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 炳文 | luminous style | |
| 彪炳千古 | to shine through the ages (idiom) | |
| 炳然 | to be manifest for everyone to see | |
| 章炳麟 | Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual … | |
| 炳著 | eminent; renowned | |
| 炳烛 | by bright candlelight | |
| 炳耀 | bright and luminous | |
| 彪炳 | (literary) (of deeds, accomplishments etc) to shine brightly (in the annals of history etc… | |
| 炳蔚 | splendid (of writing style) | |
| 炳焕 | bright and brilliant |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 丙 — compare how they read.