huāng
a watery waste
Phonosemantic compound. 亡 represents the sound and 川 represents the meaning.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m̥ˤaŋ | xwang | huāng | broad |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5DDF |
Shuowen | “巟，水廣也。从川，亡聲。” |
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