耀

brilliant / glorious

耀 = + : Maud Younger (y) shines (耀) with a laser pointer (光) at the featers of the long-tail pheasant (翟) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4), and under this illumination (耀) the featers look even awesomer (耀).

耀 character breakdown

light / ray / CL:道[dao4] / bright / only / merely / to use up

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a laser pointer.

= + : Gitta Giraffe is giving a big concert in front of the anglepod. She set up a lot of laser pointers for the light show, the audience is throwing daisies up to her and she is just rocking her 胡兀尔.
surname Di / variant of 狄[Di2], generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)
surname Zhai

= + : In the airplane's kitchen (ai2) James II of England (zh) gives a present to Herbert Allen Giles (翟) for his contributions to the Wade-Giles system, a long-tail pheasant. As Herbert receives the bird he finds that it is just a sparrow (隹) with long feathers (羽) attached.
long-tail pheasant

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) helps the sparrow (隹) to put on a costume in the space station's entrance (Ø2). She attaches very long feathers (羽) to the sparrows tail so that he looks like a long-tail pheasant (翟).

Characters with 耀 as component

耀 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 耀

to shine / to illuminate
to bring honor to one's ancestors
to bring honor to one's ancestors (idiom) / also written 光宗耀祖
bright and luminous
to shine / to glitter
giddy / confused / variant of 炫耀[xuan4 yao4]
Yaozhou District of Tongchuan City 銅川市|铜川市[Tong2 chuan1 Shi4], Shaanxi
splendor shines on the family's door (idiom) / fig. to bring honor to one's family
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), founding father of modern Singapore, prime minister 1959-1990

Sentences with 耀

耀 currently does not appear in any sentence.