惶

惶 U+60F6, 惶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60F6 ← 惵 [U+60F5] CJK Unified Ideographs 惷 → [U+60F7]

Translingual

Han character

惶 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 心竹日土 (PHAG), four-corner 9601₄, composition ⿰忄皇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 392, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10863
• Dae Jaweon: page 728, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2329, character 9
• Unihan data for U+60F6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		惶

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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hông / hiâⁿ

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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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hông
    • Tâi-lô: hông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoong
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /hɔŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiâⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: hiânn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hviaa
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /hiã²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiã²³/

Note:

• hông - literary;
• hiâⁿ - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: hwang

Rime
Character	惶
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/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	惶
Reading #	1/1
No.	12697
Phonetic component	王
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	黃
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋ/

Definitions

惶

1. fearful; afraid; anxious; nervous

   Synonyms: 恐懼／恐惧 (kǒngjù), 不安 (bù'ān)

2. ^† confuse; confused

   Synonym: 迷惑 (míhuò)

Compounds

• 人心惶惶 (rénxīnhuánghuáng)
• 回惶
• 恓恓惶惶
• 恓惶 (xīhuáng)
• 恐惶 (kǒnghuáng)
• 恐惶悚懼／恐惶悚惧 (kǒnghuángsǒngjù)
• 悽悽惶惶／凄凄惶惶
• 悽惶／凄惶 (qīhuáng)
• 惶怖 (huángbù)
• 惶急
• 惶恐 (huángkǒng)
• 惶恐不安 (huángkǒngbù'ān)
• 惶悚
• 惶悚不安
• 惶惑 (huánghuò)
• 惶惶 (huánghuáng)
• 惶惶不安 (huánghuángbù'ān)
• 惶惶不定
• 惶惶無措／惶惶无措
• 惶愧
• 惶汗
• 惶然
• 惶遽 (huángjù)
• 愴惶／怆惶
• 愧惶無地／愧惶无地
• 慞惶
• 慚惶／惭惶
• 慞惶失次
• 戰戰惶惶／战战惶惶
• 誠恐誠惶／诚恐诚惶 (chéngkǒngchénghuáng)
• 誠惶誠恐／诚惶诚恐 (chénghuángchéngkǒng)
• 誠惶誠懼／诚惶诚惧
• 驚惶／惊惶 (jīnghuáng)
• 驚惶失措／惊惶失措 (jīnghuáng shīcuò)

 

Japanese

Kanji

惶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. be anxious
2. fear

Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: おそれる (osoreru, 惶れる)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

惶: Hán Nôm readings: hoàng

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