英皇

Chinese

		flower; hero; brave flower; hero; brave; outstanding; Britain (abbrev.); English	emperor; surname
trad. (英皇)		英	皇
simp. #(英皇)		英	皇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīnghuáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥ ㄏㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing¹ wong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīnghuáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥ ㄏㄨㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yinghuáng
    • Wade–Giles: ying¹-huang²
    • Yale: yīng-hwáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: inghwang
    • Palladius: инхуан (inxuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jing¹ wong⁴
    • Yale: yīng wòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing¹ wong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying¹ wong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ⁵⁵ wɔːŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jaeng hwang

Rime
Character	英	皇
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	於驚切	胡光切
Baxter	'jaeng	hwang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiæŋ/	/ɦwɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚiaŋ/	/ɦʷɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiaŋ/	/ɣuɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔiajŋ/	/ɦwaŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔiɐŋ/	/ɣuɑŋ/
Wang Li	/ĭɐŋ/	/ɣuɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ɐŋ/	/ɣwɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yīng	huáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jing1	wong4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔ<r>aŋ  [ɢ]ʷˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qraŋ  ɡʷaːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	英	皇	皇
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yīng	huáng	huáng
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjæng ›	‹ hwang ›	‹ hwang ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔ<r>aŋ/	/*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/	/*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/
English	young grass plants	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	英	皇
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14510	12696
Phonetic component	央	王
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	霙	黃
Old Chinese	/*qraŋ/	/*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

Etymology 1

Proper noun

英皇

1. Short for 女英 (Nǚyīng) + 娥皇 (Éhuáng): “two daughters of Emperor Yao”.

Etymology 2

Noun

英皇

1. (Hong Kong, usually used in compounds) king of the United Kingdom

Synonyms

• 英王 (yīngwáng)