輝 — radiance, shine, sparkle

かがやく輝 radiance

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+8F1D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1259 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #324 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

radiance
shine
sparkle
gleam
twinkle

word

かがや kagaya Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

輝(かがや) く kagayaku to shine 輝(かがや) き kagayaki radiance

かがやき kagayaki Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

輝(かがやき) kagayaki radiance

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひかり光 light

ぐん軍 army

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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