Definition
烁 is a literary bound morpheme meaning 'bright, luminous'. It rarely appears alone in modern Chinese; you'll almost always see it in the compound 闪烁 (shǎn shuò, 'to twinkle, to flicker') or, less commonly, in other disyllabic words like 烁石. Be aware that using 烁 independently sounds archaic or poetic.
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brightluminous (literary; used in compounds such as 闪烁)
Examples
- ,。Yèwǎn, xīngxīng zài tiānkōng zhōng shǎn shuò.At night, stars twinkle in the sky.
- 。Yuǎn chù de dēngguāng shǎn shuò bú dìng.The distant lights flickered unsteadily.
- 。Tā de yǎnjīng shǎn shuò zhe zhìhuì de guāngmáng.His eyes sparkled with wisdom.
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