U+6656 "晖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6656 "晖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "sunshine," "radiance," or "bright light," often connoting the warm, luminous glow of the sun. It is composed of the radical for "sun" (日) on the left side, which suggests its solar association, and a phonetic component on the right. In standard Mandarin Chinese, it is pronounced as "huī" and appears in classical and modern texts, frequently in contexts related to sunlight, brilliance, or metaphorical enlightenment. This character is commonly used in compound words like "春晖" (chūnhuī), meaning "spring sunshine," which symbolizes maternal love or warm care in Chinese culture, and "余晖" (yúhuī), meaning "afterglow." As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs, it is shared across multiple East Asian writing systems, though its usage and pronunciation may vary slightly between languages.