Chinese symbol for “flash”
闪光
shǎn guāng
Traditional: 閃光
flash
The closest CC-CEDICT match for flash is 闪光 (shǎn guāng), defined as: flash.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “flash”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 闪现 (閃現) | shǎn xiàn | to flash |
| 闪 (閃) | shǎn | to dodge; to duck out of the way |
| 刷入 | shuā rù | to flash; to overwrite the firmware (computing) |
| 闪出 (閃出) | shǎn chū | to flash; to sparkle |
| 焕发 (煥發) | huàn fā | to shine; to glow |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 闪光.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 闪电 (閃電) | shǎn diàn | lightning; measure word: 道 (dào) |
| 闪亮 (閃亮) | shǎn liàng | brilliant; shiny |
| 闪耀 (閃耀) | shǎn yào | to glint; to glitter |
| 闪烁 (閃爍) | shǎn shuò | to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate |
| 闪闪 (閃閃) | shǎn shǎn | flickering; sparkling; glistening; glittering |
| 阳光 (陽光) | yáng guāng | sunshine; (of personality) upbeat; energetic |
| 曝光 | bào guāng | to expose (photography); (fig.) to expose (a scandal) |
| 时光 (時光) | shí guāng | time (esp. as sth that passes) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “flash”.
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.