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yào
  1. 1.bright
  2. 2.glorious
  3. 3.one of the seven planets of premodern astronomy

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.sunlight, daylight; brilliance
  2. 2.one of the seven luminaries (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *lewɢs): semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 翟 (OC *r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lewk (“to shine, flash”); cognate with Tibetan གློག (glog, “lightning”), Burmese လက် (lak, “to flash, scintillate”) (STEDT). Within Sinitic, compare: * 灼 (OC *pljewɢ, “to burn; brilliant; to illuminate”) * 爍 (OC *qʰljawɢ, “to melt, fuse, shine”) * 爚 (OC *hljowɢ, *lowɢ, “to shine, melt”) * 的 (OC *pleːwɢ, “bright, brilliant; to mark in a target”) * 耀 (OC *lewɢs), 燿 (OC *lewɢs, “to shine, gleam”) * 霍 (OC *qʰʷaːɡ, “quickly, suddenly; lightning”)

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