慌

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 忄 (“heart”) + phonetic 荒 – a feeling of panic.

Han character

慌 (radical 61 心+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 心廿卜山 (PTYU), four-corner 9401₁, composition ⿰忄荒)

1. nervous, panicky, frantic

Note: The right-middle part could be found as 亾 instead of 亡.

References

• KangXi: page 398, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11057
• Dae Jaweon: page 737, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2326, character 7
• Unihan data for U+614C

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		慌

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huāng (huang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: huang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huang
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fong¹
    • Yale: fōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (慌, reconstructed)
Character (慌), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 曉 (32) Final: 唐 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 呼晃切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/hwɑŋX/	/xwɑŋX/	/xuɑŋX/	/hʷɑŋX/	/hwaŋX/	/xuɑŋX/	/xuɑŋX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (慌, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
慌								huǎng								‹ xwangX ›								/*m̥ ˤaŋʔ/								confused
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
慌					12654					亡					陽					0					荒					/*hmaːŋ/					見九歎
慌					12656					亡					陽					0					慌					/*hmaːŋʔ/					見九歌

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Japanese

Kanji

慌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: あわてる (awateru), あわただし (awatadashi), くらい (kurai)

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Korean

Hanja

慌 (hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune-Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: hoảng, hoang

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