Chinese Character Wiki

隍

huáng

dry ditch

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

place

皇 sound component

皇  Sound component

huáng

  

royal

Evolution

隍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
隍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

隍  

huáng

dry ditch, dry moat; dry moat; god of city

Most common words with 隍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

城隍

Shing Wong (deity in Chinese mythology)

隍

dry moat

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ

hwang

huáng

moat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4334th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+968D

Shuowen

“隍，城池也。有水曰池；無水曰隍。从，皇聲。《易》曰：‘城復于隍。’”


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