HSK 4 · Function Words

光 guāng “light” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 光 means

  1. light
  2. ray
  3. bright
  4. shiny
  5. only
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • merely
  • used up
  • finished
  • to leave (a part of the body) uncovered

How to say 光

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale光guāng1st tone, high and level

光 in a sentence

  1. 猫的眼睛对光很敏感。

    Māo de yǎnjing duì guāng hěn mǐngǎn.

    Cats’ eyes are very sensitive to light.

    Sentence #1746066 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 为什么月亮晚上发光？

    Wèishénme yuèliang wǎnshang fā guāng?

    Why does the moon shine at night?

    Sentence #426315 from Tatoeba

  3. 你挡住我的光了。

    Nǐ dǎngzhù wǒ de guāng le.

    You’re blocking my light.

    Sentence #884670 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 光 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 光 (guāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
光guānglight; ray
  • ⺌small form of 小 · xiǎo
  • 兀weak · wù

How to write 光

光 6 strokes

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

Words related to 光

Words with 光

阳光yángguāng · sunshine光临guānglín · (formal) to honour with one’s presence光滑guānghuá · glossy光明guāngmíng · bright光盘guāngpán · compact disc (CD)时光shíguāng · time目光mùguāng · gaze曝光bàoguāng · to expose (to the public)观光guānguāng · to go sightseeing风光fēngguāng · scenery

More words: Particles & Connectors

刚gāng · just各gè · each共同gòngtóng · common故意gùyì · deliberately互相hùxiāng · each other接着jiēzhe · next及时jíshí · timely即使jíshǐ · even if

FAQs

光 (guāng) means “light” or “ray”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it guāng: guāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 光 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type guang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 光 from the suggestions. Typing guang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
光 is an HSK 4 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.