徨

See also: 遑

徨 U+5FA8, 徨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FA8 ← 徧 [U+5FA7] CJK Unified Ideographs 復 → [U+5FA9]

Translingual

Han character

徨 (Kangxi radical 60, 彳+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人竹日土 (HOHAG), four-corner 2621₄, composition ⿰彳皇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 369, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10178
• Dae Jaweon: page 695, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 835, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5FA8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		徨

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (王) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
皇	*ɡʷaːŋ
惶	*ɡʷaːŋ
遑	*ɡʷaːŋ
堭	*ɡʷaːŋ
煌	*ɡʷaːŋ
餭	*ɡʷaːŋ
騜	*ɡʷaːŋ
艎	*ɡʷaːŋ
隍	*ɡʷaːŋ
湟	*ɡʷaːŋ
徨	*ɡʷaːŋ
篁	*ɡʷaːŋ
蝗	*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
凰	*ɡʷaːŋ
偟	*ɡʷaːŋ
媓	*ɡʷaːŋ
韹	*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
葟	*ɡʷaːŋ
皝	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
汪	*qʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋs, *qʷaŋʔ
尪	*qʷaːŋ
迋	*kʷaŋʔ, *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
逛	*kʷaŋʔ
誑	*kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
匡	*kʰʷaŋ
筐	*kʰʷaŋ
框	*kʰʷaŋ
眶	*kʰʷaŋ
誆	*kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
邼	*kʰʷaŋ
恇	*kʰʷaŋ
劻	*kʰʷaŋ
洭	*kʰʷaŋ
軭	*kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ
狂	*ɡʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
軖	*ɡʷaŋ
鵟	*ɡʷaŋ
俇	*ɡʷaŋʔ
王	*ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
蚟	*ɢʷaŋ
彺	*ɢʷaŋ
旺	*ɢʷaŋs
諻	*qʰʷraːŋ
喤	*qʰʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
瑝	*ɡʷraːŋ
鍠	*ɡʷraːŋ
揘	*ɡʷaŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huáng (huang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wong⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): horng²
• Southern Min (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): huang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huáng
    • Wade–Giles: huang²
    • Yale: hwáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwang
    • Palladius: хуан (xuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wong⁴
    • Yale: wòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔːŋ²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: horng²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hó̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɒŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: horng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɒŋ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: huang⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /huaŋ²²/

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• Middle Chinese: hwang

Rime
Character	徨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡光切
Baxter	hwang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋ/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋ/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	徨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huáng
Middle Chinese	‹ hwang ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/
English	彷徨 bang.hwang hesitate
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	徨
Reading #	1/1
No.	12706
Phonetic component	王
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	黃
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋ/
Notes	見揚雄賦

Definitions

徨

1. used in 彷徨 (pánghuáng)
2. used in 徨徨

Compounds

• 彷徨 (pánghuáng)
• 彷徨失措
• 徊徨
• 徨徨
• 徬徨 (pánghuáng)
• 徬徨失措
• 徬徨歧路
• 徬徨歧途

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “徨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 94.

Japanese

Kanji

徨

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. wander

Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)^{←わう (wau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kun: さまよう (samayou, 徨う)^{←さまよふ (samayofu, 徨ふ, historical)}

Derived terms

• 彷徨(さまよ)う (samayou): wander

Korean

Hanja

徨 (eum 황 (hwang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

徨: Hán Nôm readings: hoàng

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References

• Nom Foundation