huáng
bright
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 皇 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 煌
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
splendid | ||
brilliant | ||
Dunhuang county level city in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu | ||
gold and jade in glorious splendor (idiom) | ||
Dunhuang county level city in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ | hwang | huáng | brilliant |
*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ | hwang | huáng | 敦煌 Dūnhuáng |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.4027% of movies
2922nd most common character in movies
2276th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+714C |
Shuowen | “煌，煌煇也。从火，皇聲。” |
Sources
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