辉 (huī): brilliant
辉 (huī) is a Chinese character meaning “brilliant.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 光 (semantic) and 军 (phonetic). It ranks #1612 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 辉 light. Its radical form 车 (cart) appears in many related characters such as 车 (chē, vehicle), 轻 (qīng, light), 辆 (liàng, measure word for vehicles).
Definitions
- brilliant
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辉煌adjective | huī huáng | splendid |
| 光辉noun | guāng huī | radiance |
| 蓬荜生辉 | péng bì shēng huī | (idiom) (humble expression) your presence brings light to my humble dwelling |
| 金碧辉煌phrase | jīn bì huī huáng | gold and jade in glorious splendor (idiom) |
| 生辉 | shēng huī | to dazzle |
| 辉长岩 | huī cháng yán | gabbro (geology) |
| 余辉noun | yú huī | variant of 餘暉|余晖 |
| 辉瑞 | huī ruì | Pfizer, American pharmaceutical company |
| 辉映verb | huī yìng | to reflect |
| 辉石noun | huī shí | pyroxene (family of rock-forming minerals) |
| 与日同辉 | yǔ rì tóng huī | to become more glorious with each passing day (idiom) |
| 爱辉区 | ài huī qū | Aihui, a district of Heihe City 黑河市, Heilongjiang |
| 黄金辉 | huáng jīn huī | Wee Kim Wee (1915-2005), president of Singapore (1985-1993) |
| 卫辉市 | wèi huī shì | Weihui, a county-level city in Xinxiang City 新鄉市|新乡市, Henan |
| 辉格党 | huī gé dǎng | Whig Party |
辉 appears in 28 compound words: 39 as the first character, 50 as the last, and 11 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 辉 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
他的成就辉煌，是我们学习的榜样。
Tā de chéngjiù huīhuáng, shì wǒmen xuéxí de bǎngyàng.
His achievements are brilliant; he is a role model for us to learn from.
华硕参展GTC推液冷解决方案 为辉达Vera Rubin提供最佳化热管理
huá shuò cān zhǎn tuī yè lěng jiě jué fāng àn wéi huī dá tí gōng zuì jiā huà rè guǎn lǐ
ASUS exhibited at GTC to promote liquid cooling solutions to provide optimized thermal management for Nvidia's Vera Rubin
美股早盘道琼崩逾600点!辉达破190美元 欧洲拟暂缓美欧贸易协议
měi gǔ zǎo pán dào 琼 bēng yú diǎn ! huī dá pò měi yuán ōu zhōu nǐ zàn huǎn měi ōu mào yì xié yì
The Dow Jones collapsed more than 600 points in early trading! Nvidia broke $190 and Europe plans to suspend the US-EU trade agreement
辉达GTC将秀新品 台积、鸿海等营运进补
huī dá jiāng xiù xīn pǐn tái jī 鸿 hǎi děng yíng yùn jìn bǔ
NVIDIA to Showcase New Products at GTC; TSMC, Foxconn to Benefit from Increased Operations
辉达本周公布财报 营收估增67%
huī dá běn zhōu gōng bù cái bào yíng shōu gū zēng
NVIDIA to Release Earnings This Week, Revenue Expected to Surge 67%
经典赛》卫冕军火力全开!佐藤辉明猛打赏灌5打点、森下翔太开轰4打点 日...
jīng diǎn sài wèi 冕 jūn huǒ lì quán kāi ! zuǒ téng huī míng měng dǎ shǎng guàn dǎ diǎn sēn xià xiáng tài kāi hōng dǎ diǎn rì . . .
Classic Championship: Defending Champions Fire on All Cylinders! Teruaki Sato Delivers a Five-RBI Performance, Shota Morishita Smashes a Home Run for Four RBIs...
这样辉煌的成绩，是如何取得的？
Zhèyàng huīhuáng de chéngjì, shì rúhé qǔdé de?
How can one achieve such brilliant results?
这个发现将会在历史上留下光辉的一页。
Zhège fāxiàn jiānghuì zài lìshǐshàng liúxià guānghuī de yī yè.
This discovery will be recorded in history.
"文学作品是关系到一个国家统治的伟大成就，以及永恒地位的辉煌事迹"。
"wénxué zuòpǐn shì guānxìdào yī gè guójiā tǒngzhì de wěidà chéngjiù, yǐjí yǒnghéng dìwèi de huīhuáng shìjì ".
"Literary composition is a great achievement that concerns the ruling of a state, a splendid affair of eternal standing".
Character Family
车 Radical Family — Characters sharing the cart radical
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