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宏
宏
Translingual
Han character
宏 (radical 40 宀+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十大戈 (JKI), four-corner 30432, composition ⿱宀厷)
References
- KangXi: page 282, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7086
- Dae Jaweon: page 556, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 916, character 3
- Unihan data for U+5B8F
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
宏 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 宏
|
|---|
| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (厷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 肱 | *kʷɯːŋ |
| 宏 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 閎 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 吰 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 竑 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 谹 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 翃 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 紘 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 鈜 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 浤 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 耾 | *ɡʷrɯːŋ |
| 雄 | *ɡʷɯŋ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄥˊ
- Wade-Giles: hung2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hongr
- IPA (key): /xʊŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: wang4
- Yale: wàhng
- Cantonese Pinyin: wang4
- IPA (key): /wɐŋ²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hông
- Tâi-lô: hông
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoong
- IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 宏 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /xuŋ³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /xuŋ²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /xuŋ⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /xuŋ⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /xəŋ⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /xuŋ⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /xuŋ²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /xuə̃²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /xuŋ⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /xũn⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /xuŋ⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /xoŋ²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /xoŋ³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /xoŋ²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /xoŋ³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /xoŋ²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /xəŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /xuəŋ¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /xuŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /xũŋ³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɦoŋ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /ɦoŋ¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɦoŋ²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ɦoŋ³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /xuʌ̃⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /xan⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /xoŋ¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɦən¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /fen¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /fen¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /wɐŋ²¹/ |
| Nanning | /huŋ²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /wɐŋ²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /hɔŋ³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /huŋ⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /ɔŋ²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /hoŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /hɔŋ³¹/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 宏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 耕 (118) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 戸萌切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɦˠwɛŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɦʷᵚæŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɣuɐŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɦwəɨjŋ/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɣuɛŋ/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɣwæŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɣwæŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
hóng |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 宏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
hóng |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ hwɛng › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[ɡ]ʷˤ<r>əŋ/ |
| English | resounding; great |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 宏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4130 |
| Phonetic component |
厷 |
| Rime group |
蒸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
宏 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡʷrɯːŋ/ |
Definitions
宏
Japanese
Kanji
宏
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
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Readings
Proper noun
宏 (hiragana ひろし, romaji Hiroshi)
- A male given name
Korean
Hanja
宏 • (goeng) (hangeul 굉, revised goeng, McCune-Reischauer koeng, Yale koeng)
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Vietnamese
Han character
宏 (hoãng, hoành, giang)
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