huáng

doubtful

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
彳 meaning component

  Meaning component

chì

  

walk

is a component form of .

皇 sound component

  Sound component

huáng

  

royal

Definitions

 

huáng

doubtful, irresolute, vacillating; irresolute

Most common words with 徨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

彷徨

to hesitate

irresolute

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ

hwang

huáng

彷徨 bang.hwang hesitate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4133rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5FA8


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