Chinese symbol for “lighting”
灯光
dēng guāng
Traditional: 燈光
(stage) lighting; light
The closest CC-CEDICT match for lighting is 灯光 (dēng guāng), defined as: (stage) lighting; light.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “lighting”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 照明 | zhào míng | lighting; illumination |
| 光线 (光線) | guāng xiàn | light ray; 条 (tiáo),道 (dào) |
| 照亮 | zhào liàng | to illuminate; to light up |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 灯光.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灯笼 (燈籠) | dēng lóng | lantern |
| 灯塔 (燈塔) | dēng tǎ | lighthouse; measure word: 座 (zuò) |
| 红灯 (紅燈) | hóng dēng | red light |
| 路灯 (路燈) | lù dēng | street lamp; street light |
| 灯泡 (燈泡) | dēng pào | light bulb; see also 电灯泡 (diàn dēng pào) |
| 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 “lighting”.
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.