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況

況

See also: 况

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

況 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水口竹山 (ERHU), four-corner 36110, composition ⿰氵兄)

  1. condition, situation
  2. furthermore

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 615, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17264
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1009, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1586, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6CC1

Chinese

trad. 況
simp. 况

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 況
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (兄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
怳 *hmaŋʔ
況 *hmaŋs
貺 *hmaŋs
况 *hmaŋs
兄 *hmraŋ

氵 + 兄.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 況
Mandarin Beijing /kʰuɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /kʰuaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /kʰuɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /kʰuaŋ²¹/
Qingdao /kʰuaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /kʰuaŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /kʰuaŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /kʰuɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /kʰuɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /kʰuɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /kʰuɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /kʰuaŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /kʰuaŋ¹³/
Guiyang /kʰuaŋ²¹³/
Kunming /kʰuã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /kʰuaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /kʰuɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰuɒ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /kʰuɑŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /kʰuɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kuɑ̃³⁵/
/huɑ̃³⁵/
Suzhou /huɑ̃⁵¹/
Hangzhou /kʰuɑŋ⁵³/
/huɑŋ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /ɕyɔ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kʰo³²⁴/
Tunxi /xau²⁴/
/kʰau²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /kʰuan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /kʰɔn⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kʰuɔŋ²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kʰoŋ³¹/
Taoyuan /kʰoŋ³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fɔŋ³³/
Nanning /kʰɔŋ³³/
Hong Kong /fɔŋ³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hɔŋ⁵³/
/kʰɔŋ⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huɔŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰuaŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰuaŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xuaŋ³⁵/
Rime
Character 況
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許訪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hʉɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hʷiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /huaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /xiuaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /xĭwaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xiwaŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 況 況
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kuàng kuàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjwangH › ‹ xjwangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m̥]aŋ-s/ /*[m̥]aŋ-s/
English compare with, be equal to how much the more

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 況
Reading # 1/1
No. 13902
Phonetic
component		 兄
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 況
Old
Chinese		 /*hmaŋs/

Definitions

況

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Japanese

Kanji

況

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. of course
  2. situation

Readings

  • Goon: こう (kō) < くわう (kwau)
  • Kan’on: きょう (kyō) < きやう (kyau) < くゐやう (kwyau/kuwiyau)
  • Kun: まして (mashite), いわんや (iwan'ya) < いはんや, おもむき (omomuki)

Korean

Hanja

況 • ‎(hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune-Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

況 (huống)

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