Entry
  1. Taru adjective, Adverb taking the 'to' particle

    brilliant; bright; dazzling

    大きな建物は光でこうこうと輝いていた。
    The big building was blazing with lights.

Also written 煌煌【こうこう】晃々【こうこう】晃晃【こうこう】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

glitter, gleam, twinkle

Kun
きらめ.くきら.めくかがや.く
On
コウ
Strokes
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Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
fire

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Dictionary and index codes (13)
CodeReference
1-4-9SKIP code
4d9.7The Kanji Dictionary
9681.4Four corner code
714cUnicode hex code
1-63-74JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2778Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3449New Nelson (John Haig)
1296Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
938Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1877Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
19181Morohashi
huang2Pinyin reading
hwangKorean reading