Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Feather (yǔ) 耀 Kangxi strokes: 20 Page 960, Entry 14 Guangyun (a dictionary of sounds): Pronounced yào. Jiyun (a collection of sounds): Pronounced yào. Yunhui (a collection of rhymes): Pronounced yào. Zhengyun (standard rhymes): Pronounced yào. Sound is yao. Brilliance or shine. Yao, sometimes written as a variant form. Zuo Zhuan (a commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals): That which has a distant light and radiates from another source.