Top: variant of high 高 (guard tower with two floors), bottom: table 几
Mnemonic
(Watchtowers were also used on the Chinese Wall for signal fires:) A watchtower on an elevated position (like on a 'table'), gives it shine and brightness.
A similar radical is ordinary: 凡, which shows this table with a scratch. Sometimes this radical is seen as a sail. It is at the right side of composed characters. Also this radical is understood as a table.
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Vocabulary
明亮
míng liàng
brightness
1156
亮度
liàng dù
illumination
3601
漂亮
piào liang
pretty; beautiful
3602
诸葛亮
Zhū gě Liàng
Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han
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is understood as a table.
