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Chinese symbol for “brightness”

亮度
liàng dù
brightness

The closest CC-CEDICT match for brightness is 亮度 (liàng dù), defined as: brightness.

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Characters and stroke order

亮 liàng
bright, brilliant, radiant, light
radical 8 ⼇ · 9 strokes
度 dù
degree, system; manner; to consider
radical 53 ⼴ · 9 strokes

Other Chinese words for “brightness”

WordPinyinMeaning
光亮度guāng liàng dùbrightness; luminosity

Related words

Other words that share a character with 亮度.

WordPinyinMeaning
漂亮piào liangpretty; beautiful
月亮yuè liangthe moon
亮相liàng xiàngto strike a pose (Chinese opera); (fig.) to make a public appearance; to come out in public (revealing one's true personality, opinions etc)
明亮míng liàngbright; shining
亮点 (亮點)liàng diǎnhighlight; bright spot
天亮tiān liàngto grow light (at daybreak)
制度zhì dùsystem (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution
程度chéng dùdegree; level; extent

See also: Japanese symbol for “brightness”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.