璚 meaning and stroke order
Splendid; a jade ring
How to write 璚, stroke by stroke
16 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 璚
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- half-circle jade ring
- (red stone)
How 璚 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Jade.
王 gives the meaning and 矞 hints at the sound.
Radical: 王 (king), shared by 104 characters on this site.
How to remember 璚
The left side 王 is the jade radical, so 璚 is about jade or precious stone. The right side 矞 (yù) gives the sound family, so picture a fine piece of jade with a fancy carved sound tag beside it.
璚 is a rare literary character. You will mostly meet it in classical texts, poetry, or names, where it describes beautiful jade or a reddish precious stone. Example: 璚枝 (qióng zhī) means a jade-like branch, a poetic image of something precious.
Common mistake: Learners often expect 矞 to make the sound yù, but 璚 is read qióng or jué, not yù. It is also easy to confuse with the more common 琼 (qióng, fine jade), which has the same reading and a related meaning but a different right side.
Questions about 璚
How many strokes are in 璚?
璚 is written with 16 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 璚 mean?
璚 (qióng) means splendid; a jade ring.
How do you pronounce 璚?
璚 is pronounced qióng, in the second tone (rising).
What is the radical of 璚?
The radical of 璚 is 王, which carries the idea of "king". Dictionaries list 璚 under this radical.
Why does 璚 have two readings, qióng and jué?
Each reading goes with a different sense. Read jué, it means a half-circle jade ring, similar to 玦 (jué). Read qióng, it refers to a red stone or fine jade.
Is 璚 the same as 琼?
They share the reading qióng and the idea of beautiful jade, so they appear in similar poetic contexts. However, they are written differently, and 琼 is the form you will see in everyday modern Chinese, as in 琼 for Hainan.