煌

煌 U+714C, 煌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-714C ← 煋 [U+714B] CJK Unified Ideographs 煍 → [U+714D]

Translingual

Han character

煌 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火竹日土 (FHAG), four-corner 9681₄, composition ⿰火皇)

Derived characters

• 𬉒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 676, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19181
• Dae Jaweon: page 1087, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2218, character 16
• Unihan data for U+714C

Chinese

trad.		煌
simp. #		煌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 煌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷaːŋ): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 皇 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ).

Etymology

Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Burmese လွင် (lwang, “vivid”) (Schuessler, 2007).

皇 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “royal”) may be the same word (ibid.).

It may be related to 光 (OC *kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs, “light; bright”) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007). Wang (1982) additionally relates it to 景 (OC *kraŋʔ, “bright; sunlight”), 鏡 (OC *kraŋs, “mirror”), 晃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋʔ, “bright”), 曠 (OC *kʰʷaːŋs, “bright”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huáng (huang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wong⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fòng
• Eastern Min (BUC): huòng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): horng²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hông

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huang⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶waon

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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/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fòng
    • Hakka Romanization System: fong^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fong²
    • Sinological IPA: /foŋ¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: huòng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ⁵³/
• 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
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hông
    • Tâi-lô: hông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoong
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶waon
    • MiniDict: waon^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhuaan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦuɑ̃²³/

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• Middle Chinese: hwang

Rime
Character	煌
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	煌	煌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huáng	huáng
Middle Chinese	‹ hwang ›	‹ hwang ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/	/*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/
English	brilliant	敦煌 Dūnhuáng
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	煌
Reading #	1/1
No.	12700
Phonetic component	王
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	黃
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋ/

Definitions

煌

1. bright; brilliant

Compounds

• 敦煌 (Dūnhuáng)
• 敦煌壁畫 / 敦煌壁画
• 敦煌曲子
• 敦煌石室
• 敦煌石窟
• 正大堂煌
• 煌煌 (huánghuáng)
• 熒煌 / 荧煌 (yínghuáng)
• 燈火輝煌 / 灯火辉煌
• 燉煌 (Dūnhuáng)
• 燈燭熒煌 / 灯烛荧煌
• 燈燭輝煌 / 灯烛辉煌
• 輝煌 / 辉煌 (huīhuáng)
• 輝煌奪目 / 辉煌夺目
• 金煌煌
• 金碧熒煌 / 金碧荧煌
• 金碧輝煌 / 金碧辉煌 (jīnbìhuīhuáng)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “煌”, 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

煌

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. bright
2. glittering
3. gleaming

Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)^{←わう (wau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kun: きらめく (kirameku)、きららか (kiraraka)、きらやか (kirayaka, 煌やか)、きらびやか (kirabiyaka, 煌びやか)
• Nanori: きら (kira)、きらら (kirara)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

煌: Hán Việt readings: hoàng

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