HSK 6 · Verbs

闪烁 shǎnshuò “to twinkle” in Chinese

Traditional 閃爍

What 闪烁 means

  1. to twinkle
  2. to flicker
  3. to sparkle
  4. to glisten
  5. to glitter
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to be evasive
  • to equivocate

How to say 闪烁

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale闪shǎn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale烁shuò4th tone, falling

闪烁 in a sentence

  1. 无数星星在天上闪烁。

    Wúshù xīngxing zài tiānshàng shǎnshuò.

    Countless stars were twinkling in the sky.

    Sentence #5767608 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 阳光在湖面上闪烁。

    Yángguāng zài húmiàn shang shǎnshuò.

    Sunlight sparkled on the lake.

    Sentence #11031488 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 她的眼睛闪烁着喜悦的光芒。

    Tā de yǎnjing shǎnshuò zhe xǐyuè de guāngmáng.

    Her eyes sparkled with joy.

    Sentence #343925 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 闪烁 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 闪 (shǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
闪shǎnto dodge
  • 门gate · mén
  • 人person · rén
The character 烁 (shuò) with each of its parts in a different colour
烁shuòbright
  • 火fire · huǒ
  • 乐cheerful · lào

How to write 闪烁

闪 5 strokes · 烁 9 strokes

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闪烁 (shǎnshuò) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 闪烁 (shǎnshuò). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 闪烁

Words with 闪

闪电shǎndiàn · lightning

More words: Common Verbs

散布sànbù · to spread散发sànfā · to give off丧失sàngshī · to lose筛选shāixuǎn · to screen捎shāo · to bring along设立shèlì · to set up渗透shèntòu · to permeate拾shí · to pick up

FAQs

闪烁 (shǎnshuò) means “to twinkle” or “to flicker”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shǎnshuò: shǎn with a 3rd tone, then shuò with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 闪烁 is written 閃爍. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shanshuo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 闪烁 from the suggestions. Typing shanshuo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
闪烁 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.