王

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

王 (radical 96 玉+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一土 (MG), four-corner 1010₄)

Wikipedia

1. king, ruler
2. royal
3. a surname, listed eighth in the Baijiaxing

References

• KangXi: page 727, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20823
• Dae Jaweon: page 1137, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1099, character 10
• Unihan data for U+738B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

王 (Yale wong4)

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Japanese

Wikipedia ^ja

Pronunciation

• IPA: /oː/

Etymology

/wau/ > /woː/ > /oː/. Initial /w/ vanishes as the distinction between /o, wo/ was lost.

Noun

王 (hiragana おう, romaji ō, historical hiragana わう)

1. the ruler of a nation; a king

Synonyms

• 玉
• 主

Kanji

王 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: おう (ō)
• Kun: きみ (kimi)

See also

• 女王 (じょおう, joō): lit. a "female ruler" -- a queen
• 王女 (おうじょ, Ōjo): lit. a "king/ruler's daughter" -- a princess (also see 姫 (ひめ, hime): lit. a "princess" &/or a "beauty"
• 帝王 (teiō): lit. a general term for "emperor"
• 皇帝 (kōtei): lit. another general term for "emperor"
• 天皇 (tennō): lit. another general term for "emperor of Japan"

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Korean

Hanja

王
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 왕 (revised: wang, McCune-Reischauer: wang, Yale: wang)

• Name (hangeul): 임금 (revised: imgeum, McCune-Reischauer: imgŭm, Yale: imkum)

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Mandarin

Wikipedia ^cmn

Hanzi

王 (pinyin wáng (wang2), Wáng (Wang2), Wade-Giles wang², Wang²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

王 (*hiuɑng, hiuɑ̀ng)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

王 (POJ ông)

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Ong, Wong

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Vietnamese

Han character

王 (vương, vướng)