矆

Pronunciationhuò
Strokes19 strokes

Basic Info

Pronunciation huò
Five Elements 0
Fortune
Radical
Simplified Strokes 18 strokes
Traditional Strokes 19 strokes

Naming Meaning

Kangxi Dictionary

View Original Page 819
View Original Page 819
Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Eye (mù) Character: Huo Kangxi Strokes: 19 Page 819, Entry 28 Pronounced kuang (entering tone). Defined in Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) as looking with wide-open eyes. It also refers to the phrase huo-shan, meaning the light of lightning. Mu Hua's Rhapsody on the Sea (Haifu) writes: Sunlight is extinguished, electric lights flash, various strange glowing colors appear, obscuring the darkness, with light flickering unsteadily. The commentary notes that this describes various strange entities emitting light and color, dazzling the human heart without fixed patterns. It is also written in a variant form. According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is also pronounced huo, with the same sound as huo. It describes the appearance of a gaze that is hasty and panicked. Sometimes also written in a variant form (huo).

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