玄暉

Chinese

		black; mysterious	bright; radiant
trad. (玄暉)		玄	暉
simp. (玄晖)		玄	晖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuánhuī

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄟ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuánhuī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuánhuei
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan²-hui¹
    • Yale: sywán-hwēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyuanhuei
    • Palladius: сюаньхуэй (sjuanʹxuej)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: hwen xjw+j

Rime
Character	玄	暉
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	先 (86)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	胡涓切	許歸切
Baxter	hwen	xjw+j
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwen/	/hʉi/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷen/	/hʷɨi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɛn/	/xiuəi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwɛn/	/huj/
Li Rong	/ɣuen/	/xiuəi/
Wang Li	/ɣiwen/	/xĭwəi/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣiwen/	/xwe̯i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuán	huī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun4	fai1

Noun

玄暉

1. (literary) sun
2. (literary) moonlight
3. (literary, figuratively, from the courtesy name of Southern Qi poet Xie Tiao) literarily talented person

Synonyms

• (sun): 太陽／太阳 (tàiyáng)
• (moonlight):

Dialectal synonyms of 月光 (“moonlight”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		月色, 玄暉, 月明, 蟾光
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		月光, 月色
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	月光
	Singapore	月光
Cantonese	Guangzhou	月光
	Hong Kong	月光
Gan	Pingxiang	月光
Southern Min	Xiamen	月光, 月色
	Quanzhou	月光, 月色
	Zhangzhou	月光, 月色
	Tainan	月色
Wu	Shanghai	月亮光, 月光
	Ningbo	月光
Xiang	Loudi	月光