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黃

黃

See also: 黄 and 冓

Translingual

For stroke order (not present here), see 黄.

Han character

黃 (radical 201 黃+0, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一田金 (TMWC), four-corner 44806, composition ⿱⿱廿一⿱田八)

  1. Kangxi radical #201, ⿈ ‎(“yellow”).

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 1516, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47926
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2046, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4596, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9EC3

Chinese

trad. 黃
simp. 黄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 黃
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (黄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
横 *kʷaːŋ
僙 *kʷaːŋ
廣 *kʷaːŋʔ
鄺 *kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ
懬 *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ
爌 *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
曠 *kʰʷaːŋs
矌 *kʰʷaːŋs
壙 *kʰʷaːŋs
纊 *kʰʷaːŋs
黃 *ɡʷaːŋ
璜 *ɡʷaːŋ
潢 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs
簧 *ɡʷaːŋ
癀 *ɡʷaːŋ
鱑 *ɡʷaːŋ
獚 *ɡʷaːŋ
蟥 *ɡʷaːŋ
趪 *ɡʷaːŋ
櫎 *ɡʷaːŋʔ
擴 *ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ
瀇 *qʷaːŋʔ
獷 *kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ
觵 *kʷraːŋ
礦 *kʷraːŋʔ
鑛 *kʷraːŋʔ
穬 *kʷraːŋʔ
橫 *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
黌 *ɡʷraːŋ
鐄 *ɡʷraːŋ
嚝 *qʰʷraːŋ
彉 *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
彍 *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷaːŋ) : phonetic 炗 + semantic 田 ‎(“field”) – the color of earth.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 黃
Mandarin Beijing /xuɑŋ³⁵/
Harbin /xuaŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /xuɑŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /xuaŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /xuaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xuaŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /xuaŋ²⁴/
Xining /xuɔ̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /xuɑŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /xuɑ̃⁵³/
Ürümqi /xuɑŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /xuaŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /xuaŋ³¹/
Guiyang /xuaŋ²¹/
Kunming /xuã̠³¹/
Nanjing /xuaŋ²⁴/
Hefei /xuɑ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xuɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /xuɑŋ¹³/
/xuə¹³/ 發糕
Hohhot /xuɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦuɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /ɦuɑ̃¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦuɑŋ²¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦuɔ³¹/
Hui Shexian /xo⁴⁴/
/o⁴⁴/
Tunxi /au⁴⁴/ ～色
/xau⁴⁴/ 姓～
Xiang Changsha /fan¹³/
/uan¹³/
Xiangtan /ɦɔn¹²/
Gan Nanchang /uɔŋ⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /voŋ¹¹/
Taoyuan /voŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɔŋ²¹/
Nanning /wɔŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /wɔŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hɔŋ³⁵/
/ŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uoŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /uaŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /huaŋ³¹/
/ui³¹/
Rime
Character 黃
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 黃
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huáng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-kʷˤaŋ/
English yellow

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 黃
Reading # 1/1
No. 5380
Phonetic
component		 黄
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 黃
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷaːŋ/
Notes 甲金文象繫市（韍）之圍腰綬帶，取唐蘭釋黃爲衡綬但不取其尪本字說。非光聲

Definitions

黃

  1. yellow
    黃色 / 黄色  ―  huángsè  ―  yellow color
  2. (colloquial) erotic, pornographic, lewd
    黃片 / 黄片  ―  huángpiàn  ―  adult movie
  3. (colloquial) to fizzle out; to fall through
  4. A surname​.

Descendants

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

黃

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 黄)

  1. yellow

Readings

Usage notes

This form of the kanji has been superseded in modern Japanese by the 黄 character. Note the difference in the strokes composing the topmost portion of the character.

Korean

Hanja

黃 • ‎(hwang)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 황 (revised: hwang, McCune-Reischauer: hwang, Yale: hwang)
  1. yellow

Vietnamese

Han character

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