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暉 is a Kanji that often represents a Japanese name romanized as Hikari.
The literal meaning can be sunshine, light, or to shine upon. It has the same meaning in Chinese and Korean. From ancient Chinese, it is a variant of 輝/辉.
Other Japanese romanizations include Hikaru, Hikatsu, Teru, Terasu, Ki, and Akira.
光彩 is the Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja for radiance.
Other meanings include luster, splendor/splendour, and brilliance.
光彩 is the radiance you see when a person's arrival brings happiness and joy to the room. Or the radiance on the face of a new bride etc.
If you delve into the dictionary, other forms of radiance will refer to isotopes emitting radiation. 光彩 is not related to radiation and is not the kind that causes cancer.
In Japanese, this can be several female given names such as Misa, Hikari, Hiiro, Teresa, or Arisa. And a more unisex given name of Kousai or Kosai.
光 is the simplest way to express “light” in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
It can also mean ray or bright. Chinese tend to use a two-character word for light/bright, so this character is probably best if your audience is Japanese. Also, when pronounced Rei, this can be a Japanese female given name.
In the Zen Buddhist context, this is the pure light that everyone possesses at their origin.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your hikari search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
光 see styles |
guāng guang1 kuang hikari ひかり |
More info & calligraphy: Light / Bright / Shine(1) light; (2) illumination; ray; beam; gleam; glow; (3) happiness; hope; (4) influence; power; (5) vision; eyesight; (6) (abbreviation) (See 光回線) optical fiber; optical fibre; (female given name) Rei 光明 prabha, light, brightness, splendour, to illuminate. |
光り see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
光凛 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
光市 see styles |
hikarishi ひかりし |
(place-name) Hikari (city) |
光梨 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
光莉 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
光駅 see styles |
hikarieki ひかりえき |
(st) Hikari Station |
干刈 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(surname) Hikari |
彩星 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
日狩 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
星凜 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
晃理 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
曙光 see styles |
shǔ guāng shu3 guang1 shu kuang shokou / shoko しょこう |
the first light of dawn; (fig.) glimmer of hope after a dark period; a new beginning (1) dawn; daybreak; first light of day; (2) (fig. as in 〜の曙光) first indication; glimpse; gleam; flash; prospects; (female given name) Hikari |
朝陽 朝阳 see styles |
zhāo yáng zhao1 yang2 chao yang chouyou / choyo ちょうよう |
the morning sun morning sun; sunrise; (female given name) Hikari |
洸里 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(personal name) Hikari |
燿璃 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
琉様 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
聖光 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
輝光 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
輝梨 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
輝璃 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
飛雁 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(surname) Hikari |
ひかり see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(See こだま,のぞみ) Hikari; high-speed Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (faster than Kodama; slower than Nozomi); (personal name) Bigagli |
ひか利 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
ひか梨 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
ひか莉 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
上月光 see styles |
kouzukihikari / kozukihikari こうづきひかり |
(person) Kōzuki Hikari |
光伽里 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
光佳里 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
光加里 see styles |
hikari ひかり |
(female given name) Hikari |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Hikari | 暉 晖 | hikari | huī / hui1 / hui | |
Radiance | 光彩 | kousai / kosai | guāng cǎi guang1 cai3 guang cai guangcai | kuang ts`ai kuangtsai kuang tsai |
Light Bright Shine | 光 | hikari | guāng / guang1 / guang | kuang |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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