幌

幌 U+5E4C, 幌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E4C ← 幋 [U+5E4B] CJK Unified Ideographs 幍 → [U+5E4D]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

幌 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中月日火山 (LBAFU), four-corner 4621₁, composition ⿰巾晃)

1. curtain, cloth screen

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 335, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9022
• Dae Jaweon: page 642, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 750, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5E4C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		幌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
光	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
灮	*kʷaːŋ
洸	*kʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋ
桄	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
胱	*kʷaːŋ
垙	*kʷaːŋ
輄	*kʷaːŋ
恍	*kʷaːŋ, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
茪	*kʷaːŋ
侊	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷraːŋ
晃	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
幌	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
榥	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
滉	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
觥	*kʷraːŋ
駫	*kʷeːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huǎng (huang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hóng / hián
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵huaon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huǎng
    • Wade–Giles: huang³
    • Yale: hwǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hoang
    • Palladius: хуан (xuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fong²
    • Yale: fóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hóng
    • Tâi-lô: hóng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: horng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hián
    • Tâi-lô: hián
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiern
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn⁴¹/

Note: hóng - literary.

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵huaon
    • MiniDict: huaon^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²huaan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /huɑ̃³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: hwangX

Rime
Character	幌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡廣切
Baxter	hwangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɑŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋX/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋX/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	幌
Reading #	1/1
No.	4520
Phonetic component	光
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	晃
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋʔ/

Definitions

幌

1. (literary) curtain
2. shop sign for a liquor-selling establishment

Compounds

• 作幌子
• 做幌子
• 岫幌
• 幌子 (huǎngzi)
• 打幌
• 掛了幌子／挂了幌子
• 掛幌子／挂幌子
• 明幌幌
• 札幌 (Zháhuǎng)
• 油幌幌
• 演幌
• 裝幌子／装幌子
• 酒幌 (jiǔhuǎng)
• 鬥幌子／斗幌子
• 點頭幌腦／点头幌脑

 

Further reading

• “幌”, 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

幌

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. canopy; hood

Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)^{←わう (wau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kun: ほろ (horo, 幌)

Compounds

Compounds

• 幌馬車(ほろばしゃ) (horobasha): hooded wagon
• 札幌(さっぽろ) (sapporo): Sapporo

Etymology

Kanji in this term
幌
ほろ Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Noun

幌(ほろ) • (horo) 

1. canopy, hood
2. horo, a cloak worn by samurai

Synonyms

• (canopy or hood): 袰(ほろ) (horo)
• (cloak worn by samurai): 母衣(ほろ) (horo),保呂(ほろ) (horo),袰(ほろ) (horo)

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɸwa̠ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [황]

Hanja

Wikisource

幌 (eum 황 (hwang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

幌: Hán Nôm readings: hoảng

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References

• Nom Foundation