照
zhàoTraditional: 照
Translation
to shine, to take (a photo), according to
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the fire dots 灬 (huǒ) for light and 昭 (zhāo, bright) supplying both sense and sound, hence to shine or illuminate.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 灬 (huǒ, fire) + 昭 (zhāo, bright, phonetic)
Stroke order
照
Examples
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The sunlight shone into the room.
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We took many photos in the park.
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Please do it according to the instructions.
镜。
She looked at her face in the mirror.
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The moonlight shone on the surface of the water.
照 (zhào) means to shine or illuminate, by extension to take a photograph, and as a coverb to act according to something. It anchors many common words such as 照片 (photo) and 照顾 (to look after).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 照.
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