# 燁

| 燁 | U+71C1, &#29121; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71C1 |
| ← 燀 [U+71C0] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 燂 → [U+71C2] |

## Translingual
### Han character

燁 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火廿一十 (FTMJ), four-corner 9485$_4$, composition ⿰火華)
* bright, glorious, splendid
* flame

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 682, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19390
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2222, character 8
* Unihan data for U+71C1

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 曄 | *ɢʷab, *ɢʷɯb |
| 爗 | *ɢʷab |
| 燁 | *ɢʷab, *ɢʷɯb |
| 曅 | *ɢʷrab |
| 皣 | *ɢʷrab |
| 瞱 | *ɢʷrab |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yè (ye$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jip$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iap
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yè
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yè
*** Wade–Giles: yeh$^4$
*** Yale: yè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeh
*** Palladius: е (je)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jip$^6$
*** Yale: yihp
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jip$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yib$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiːp̚²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iap
*** Tâi-lô: iap
*** Phofsit Daibuun: iab
*** IPA (Xiamen): /iap̚³²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /iap̚⁵/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /iap̚³²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /iap̚³²/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /iap̚³²/
* Middle Chinese: hjep
Rime :
| Character | 燁 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 云 (35) |
| Final (韻) | 葉 (156) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 筠輒切 |
| Baxter | hjep |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɦˠiᴇp̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɦᵚiɛp̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɣiæp̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɦjiap̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ɣjɛp̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ɣĭɛp̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /i̯ɛp̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yè |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jip$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ɢʷ(r)[ə]p/, /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)[a]p/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷab/, /*ɢʷɯb/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 燁 | 燁 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yè | yè |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ hip › | ‹ hjep › |
| Old Chinese | /*ɢʷ(r)[ə]p/ | /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)[a]p/ |
| English | shine, gleam | gleam |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 燁 | 燁 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 14827 | 14832 |
| Phonetic component | 曄 | 曄 |
| Rime group | 盍 | 緝 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 曄 | 煜 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɢʷab/ | /*ɢʷɯb/ |
| Notes | 見漢賦 | 見漢賦 |

### Definitions

燁
* (literary, of a flame) bright; magnificent; glorious

#### Synonyms

* 曄／晔 (yè)

#### Compounds

* 煒燁／炜烨
* 燁然／烨然 (yèrán)
* 燁煜／烨煜
* 燁燁／烨烨

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* bright
* glorious
* splendid
* flame

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): よう (yō)、ゆう (yū)、おう (ō)
* Kun: さかん (sakan, 燁ん)

## Korean
### Hanja

燁 (eumhun 빛날 엽 (binnal yeop))
* shine
* glorious
* flash in rapid succession

## Vietnamese
### Han character

燁: Hán Nôm readings: diệp
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation