晃

See also: 晄

晃 U+6643, 晃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6643 ← 時 [U+6642] CJK Unified Ideographs 晄 → [U+6644]

Translingual

Han character

晃 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 日火一山 (AFMU), four-corner 6021₁, composition ⿱日光)

1. bright, dazzling
2. to sway, shake

References

• KangXi: page 494, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13891
• Dae Jaweon: page 860, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1507, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6643

Chinese

simp. and trad.		晃
alternative forms		晄 熀 爌／𤆓 兤 熿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 晃
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
光	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
灮	*kʷaːŋ
洸	*kʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋ
桄	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
胱	*kʷaːŋ
垙	*kʷaːŋ
輄	*kʷaːŋ
恍	*kʷaːŋ, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
茪	*kʷaːŋ
侊	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷraːŋ
晃	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
幌	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
榥	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
滉	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
觥	*kʷraːŋ
駫	*kʷeːŋ

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huǎng (huang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huǎng
    • Wade–Giles: huang³
    • Yale: hwǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hoang
    • Palladius: хуан (xuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fong²
    • Yale: fóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: hwangX

Rime
Character	晃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡廣切
Baxter	hwangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɑŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋX/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋX/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	晃
Reading #	1/1
No.	4519
Phonetic component	光
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	晃
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋʔ/

Definitions

晃

1. (literary) shining; shiny
2. to glitter; to shine; to dazzle
3. to flash past

Synonyms

• (shining): 朗朗 (lǎnglǎng), 明亮 (míngliàng)
• (to glitter):

• 忽閃／忽闪
• 煥發／焕发 (huànfā)
• 閃／闪 (shǎn)
• 閃光／闪光 (shǎnguāng)
• 閃動／闪动 (shǎndòng)
• 閃灼／闪灼 (shǎnzhuó)
• 閃爍／闪烁 (shǎnshuò)
• 閃耀／闪耀 (shǎnyào)

 

Compounds

• 一晃 (yīhuǎng)
• 一晃眼
• 亮晃晃
• 明晃晃 (mínghuǎnghuǎng)
• 晃朗
• 晃耀
• 油晃晃
• 白晃晃 (báihuǎnghuǎng)
• 精晃晃
• 虛晃一招／虚晃一招

 

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàng (huang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàng
    • Wade–Giles: huang⁴
    • Yale: hwàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huanq
    • Palladius: хуан (xuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fong²
    • Yale: fóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ³⁵/

Definitions

晃

1. to sway; to shake

Synonyms

• 擺／摆 (bǎi)
• 搖／摇 (yáo)

Compounds

• 一搖三晃／一摇三晃
• 一晃 (yīhuàng)
• 打晃兒／打晃儿
• 搖搖晃晃／摇摇晃晃 (yáoyáohuànghuàng)
• 搖晃／摇晃
• 搖頭晃腦／摇头晃脑 (yáotóuhuàngnǎo)
• 晃來晃去／晃来晃去
• 晃動／晃动 (huàngdòng)
• 晃悠
• 晃搖／晃摇
• 晃晃悠悠 (huànghuangyōuyōu)
• 晃晃蕩蕩／晃晃荡荡
• 晃腦／晃脑
• 晃蕩／晃荡 (huàngdàng)
• 東轉西晃／东转西晃

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01797
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢

Japanese

Kanji

晃

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. clear

Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka)
• Nanori: あき (aki); あきつぐ (akitsugu); あきのり (akinori); あきら (akira); あつし (atsushi); こう (kō); こうじ (kōji); こうしょう (kōshō); こうそう (kōsō); てる (teru); のぼる (noboru); ひかり (hikari); ひかる (hikaru); みつ (mitsu); みつる (mitsuru)

Proper noun

晃(あきら) • (Akira) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

晃 • (hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune–Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

晃: Hán Nôm readings: quáng, hoảng, quàng

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