況

See also: 况

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

氵 + 兄

Han character

況 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水口竹山 (ERHU), four-corner 3611₀, composition ⿰氵兄)

1. condition, situation
2. furthermore

Descendants

• 况

References

• KangXi: page 615, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17264
• Dae Jaweon: page 1009, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1586, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6CC1

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Chinese

trad.		況
simp.		况

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuàng (kuang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kuàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: k'uang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuanq
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fong³
    • Yale: fong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong³
    • IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ³³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 況
Mandarin	Beijing	/kʰuɑŋ⁵¹/
	Harbin	/kʰuaŋ⁵³/
	Tianjin	/kʰuɑŋ⁵³/
	Jinan	/kʰuaŋ²¹/
	Qingdao	/kʰuaŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/kʰuaŋ³¹²/
	Xi'an	/kʰuaŋ⁴⁴/
	Xining	/kʰuɔ̃²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/kʰuɑŋ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/kʰuɑ̃¹³/
	Ürümqi	/kʰuɑŋ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/kʰuaŋ³⁵/
	Chengdu	/kʰuaŋ¹³/
	Guiyang	/kʰuaŋ²¹³/
	Kunming	/kʰuã̠²¹²/
	Nanjing	/kʰuaŋ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/kʰuɑ̃⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/kʰuɒ̃⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/kʰuɑŋ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/kʰuɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/kuɑ̃³⁵/ /huɑ̃³⁵/
	Suzhou	/huɑ̃⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/kʰuɑŋ⁵³/ /huɑŋ⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/ɕyɔ⁴²/
Hui	Shexian	/kʰo³²⁴/
	Tunxi	/xau²⁴/ /kʰau²⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/kʰuan⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/kʰɔn⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/kʰuɔŋ²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/kʰoŋ³¹/
	Taoyuan	/kʰoŋ³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/fɔŋ³³/
	Nanning	/kʰɔŋ³³/
	Hong Kong	/fɔŋ³³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hɔŋ⁵³/ /kʰɔŋ⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/huɔŋ²¹²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/kʰuaŋ³³/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kʰuaŋ²¹³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/xuaŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /hʉɐŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	況
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	陽 (106)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許訪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hʉɐŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷiɐŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/xiuɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huaŋH/
Li Rong	/xiuaŋH/
Wang Li	/xĭwaŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xiwaŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hàng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[m̥]aŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmaŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	況	況
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuàng	kuàng
Middle Chinese	‹ xjwangH ›	‹ xjwangH ›
Old Chinese	/*[m̥]aŋ-s/	/*[m̥]aŋ-s/
English	compare with, be equal to	how much the more
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	況
Reading #	1/1
No.	13902
Phonetic component	兄
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	況
Old Chinese	/*hmaŋs/

Definitions

況

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Japanese

Kanji

況

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. of course
2. situation

Readings

• Goon: こう (kō)
• Kan’on: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: いわんや (iwan'ya), おもむき (omomuki)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

況 (huống)

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