黃

See also: 黄 and 冓

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 炗 + semantic 田

the color of earth.

Han character

黃 (radical 201 黃+0, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一田金 (TMWC), four-corner 4480₆)

Derived terms

• 橫, 潢, 蟥, 鐄, 熿, 撗
• Index:Chinese radical/黃

References

• KangXi: page 1516, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47926
• Dae Jaweon: page 2046, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4596, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9EC3

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Chinese

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trad.		黃
simp.		黄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huáng (huang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wong⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): vông
• Min Nan (POJ): n̂g / hông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ
    • Wade-Giles: huang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwang
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wong⁴
    • Yale: wòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wong⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /wɔːŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vông
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /voŋ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: n̂g / hông
    • Tâi-lô: n̂g / hông
    • IPA (Taipei): /ʔŋ̍²³/, /hɔŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ʔŋ̍¹³/, /hɔŋ¹³/
  • Note: n̂g - vernacular, hông - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (黃, reconstructed)
Character (黃), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 唐 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 胡光切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦwɑŋ/	/ɣwɑŋ/	/ɣuɑŋ/	/ɦʷɑŋ/	/ɦwaŋ/	/ɣuɑŋ/	/ɣuɑŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (黃, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
黃								huáng								‹ hwang ›								/*N-kʷˤaŋ/								yellow
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
黃					5380					黄					陽					0					黃					/*ɡʷaːŋ/					甲金文象繫市（韍）之圍腰綬帶，取唐蘭釋黃爲衡綬但不取其尪本字說。非光聲

Definitions

黃

1. yellow

   黃色／黄色 ("yellow color")

2. (colloquial) erotic, pornographic, lewd

   黃片／黄片 ("adult movie")

3. (colloquial) fizzle out; fall through
4. A surname​. Huang, Hwang listed 96th in the Baijiaxing

Descendants

• (via Hokkien) Tagalog: ng, uy

Compounds

• 黃蜂

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

黃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. yellow

Readings

• Goon: おう (ō), (historical) わう (wau)
• Kan’on: こう (kō), (historical) くわう (kwau)
• Kun: き (ki), きい (kī), こ (ko)
• Nanori: うい (ui), かつみ (katsumi), れい (rei)

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Korean

Hanja

黃 (hwang)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 황 (revised: hwang, McCune-Reischauer: hwang, Yale: hwang)

• Name (hangeul): 노랗다()

1. yellow

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Vietnamese

Han character

黃 (hoàng)

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References

• Nom Foundation