璜

璜 U+749C, 璜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-749C ← 璛 [U+749B] CJK Unified Ideographs 璝 → [U+749D]

Translingual

Han character

璜 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一土廿中金 (MGTLC), four-corner 1418₆, composition ⿰𤣩黄)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 742, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21242
• Dae Jaweon: page 1151, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1134, character 2
• Unihan data for U+749C

Chinese

trad.		璜
simp. #		璜

玉璜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (黃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
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, *kʷaːŋ
黌	*ɡʷraːŋ
鐄	*ɡʷraːŋ
嚝	*qʰʷraːŋ
彉	*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
彍	*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷaːŋ) : semantic 𤣩 (“jade”) + phonetic 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huáng (huang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huáng
    • Wade–Giles: huang²
    • Yale: hwáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwang
    • Palladius: хуан (xuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wong⁴
    • Yale: wòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔːŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hwang

Rime
Character	璜
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
Baxter	hwang
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	璜
Reading #	1/1
No.	5381
Phonetic component	黄
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	黃
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋ/

Definitions

璜

1. (historical) semi-circular jade pendant used for ritual and ornamental purposes
2. Used in 璜璜.

Compounds

• 玉璜
• 璜璜
• 璜臺／璜台
• 裝璜／装璜 (zhuānghuáng)

 

References

• “璜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

璜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. jade ornament semicircular in shape

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō); おう (ō)

Korean

Hanja

璜 • (hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune–Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

1. a semicircular jade ornament used as a pendant