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皇

皇

Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese stroke order

Han character

皇 (radical 106 白+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹日一土 (HAMG), four-corner 26104, composition ⿱白王)

References

  • KangXi: page 786, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22701
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1201, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2645, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7687

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 皇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (王) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皇 *ɡʷaːŋ
惶 *ɡʷaːŋ
遑 *ɡʷaːŋ
堭 *ɡʷaːŋ
煌 *ɡʷaːŋ
餭 *ɡʷaːŋ
騜 *ɡʷaːŋ
艎 *ɡʷaːŋ
隍 *ɡʷaːŋ
湟 *ɡʷaːŋ
徨 *ɡʷaːŋ
篁 *ɡʷaːŋ
蝗 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
凰 *ɡʷaːŋ
偟 *ɡʷaːŋ
媓 *ɡʷaːŋ
韹 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
葟 *ɡʷaːŋ
皝 *ɡʷaːŋʔ
汪 *qʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋs, *qʷaŋʔ
尪 *qʷaːŋ
迋 *kʷaŋʔ, *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
逛 *kʷaŋʔ
誑 *kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
匡 *kʰʷaŋ
筐 *kʰʷaŋ
框 *kʰʷaŋ
眶 *kʰʷaŋ
誆 *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
邼 *kʰʷaŋ
恇 *kʰʷaŋ
劻 *kʰʷaŋ
洭 *kʰʷaŋ
軭 *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ
狂 *ɡʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
軖 *ɡʷaŋ
鵟 *ɡʷaŋ
俇 *ɡʷaŋʔ
王 *ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
蚟 *ɢʷaŋ
彺 *ɢʷaŋ
旺 *ɢʷaŋs
諻 *qʰʷraːŋ
喤 *qʰʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
瑝 *ɡʷraːŋ
锽 *ɡʷraːŋ
揘 *ɡʷaŋ

Pictogram (象形) - a lit oil lamp. The derivative 煌 refers to the original word.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 皇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 唐 (102)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡光切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦwɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣwɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huáng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 皇 皇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huáng huáng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwang › ‹ hwang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ/ /*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ/
English yellow and white spotted sovereign

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 皇
Reading # 1/1
No. 12696
Phonetic
component		 王
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 黃
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷaːŋ/
Notes 禮王制鄭注冕屬，金文象羽冠，王聲；或雲象日射輝則爲暀晃初文

Definitions

皇

  1. royal, imperial, august
  2. emperor, sovereign, ruler, superior
  3. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

皇

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. emperor

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

皇 • ‎(hwang, wang) (hangeul 황, 왕, revised hwang, wang, McCune-Reischauer hwang, wang, Yale hwang, wang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

皇 (hoàng, huỳnh)

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