重光

Chinese

		again	light; ray; bright
simp. and trad. (重光)		重	光

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chóngguāng

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cung⁴ gwong¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chóngguāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chóngguang
  - Wade–Giles: chʻung²-kuang¹
  - Yale: chúng-gwāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chorngguang
  - Palladius: чунгуан (čunguan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵ kwɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cung⁴ gwong¹
  - Yale: chùhng gwōng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsung⁴ gwong¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cung⁴ guong¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ²¹ kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

重光

to recover one's sight
(figurative) to recover (chiefly lost territories); to regain
(poetic) to renew; to regenerate; to be born again
- 你的詩里寫道：「世紀重光，正義再生，人返古代，天降新民。」 [MSC, trad.]
  你的诗里写道：“世纪重光，正义再生，人返古代，天降新民。” [MSC, simp.]
  From: c. 1948, Wang Weike (王維克), translator. Divine Comedy (Purgatory, Canto XXII). English text based on the translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  Nǐde shīlǐ xiědào: “Shìjì chóngguāng, zhèngyì zàishēng, rén fǎn gǔdài, tiān jiàng xīnmín.” [Pinyin]
  When thou didst say: "The age renews itself,
  Justice returns, and man's primeval time,
  And a new progeny descends from heaven."

Japanese

Kanji in this term
重	光
しげ Grade: 3	みつ Grade: 2

Proper noun

重(しげ)光(みつ) • (Shigemitsu)

a male given name

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