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Kanji Detail for 昭 - "bright, clear, illustrious"

  • Meaning

    昭 means "bright, clear, illustrious."

    1. Bright - Clear and luminous.

    2. Clear - Obvious; evident.

    3. Illustrious - Famous and admired.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    shining; bright

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    bright, luminous; illustrious

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    bright; clear; manifest; to show clearly

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    bright, luminous; clear, manifest

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Bright, luminous. Manifest. Clearly visible to people is called 昭章, 昭著. | To make manifest. To expose is called 昭. Such as overturning an unjust case is called 昭雪 (to vindicate). | The arrangement of ancestral temples. The center is the ancestral temple. Next, on the left, is zhao. Then, on the right, is mu. Alternating left and right in sequence. For example, the Son of Heaven has seven temples: three zhao and three mu. Feudal lords have five temples: two zhao and two mu.
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