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汪

汪

Translingual

Han character

汪 (radical 85 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水一土 (EMG), four-corner 31114, composition ⿰氵王)

  1. vast, extensive, deep
  2. A surname​, listed 104th in the Hundred Family Surnames

References

  • KangXi: page 607, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17154
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1000, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1557, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6C6A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 汪

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
锽 *ɡʷraːŋ
揘 *ɡʷaŋ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 汪
Mandarin Beijing /uɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /uaŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /vɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /vaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /vaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /uaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /uaŋ²¹/
Xining /uɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /vɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /vɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /vɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /uaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /uaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /uaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /uã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /uaŋ³¹/
Hefei /uɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /vɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /uɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /vɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /uɑ̃⁵³/
Suzhou /uɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔuɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /uɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /o³¹/
Tunxi /au¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /uan³³/
Xiangtan /uɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /uɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /voŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /voŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɔŋ⁵³/
Nanning /wɔŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /wɔŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ɔŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /uaŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /uaŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /uaŋ²³/
Rime
Character 汪 汪 汪
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 唐 (102) 陽 (106) 唐 (102)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed
Division (等) I III I
Fanqie 烏光切 紆往切 烏浪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔwɑŋ/ /ʔʉɐŋX/ /ʔwɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷɑŋ/ /ʔʷiɐŋX/ /ʔʷɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔuɑŋ/ /ʔiuɑŋX/ /ʔuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔwaŋ/ /ʔuaŋX/ /ʔwaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔuɑŋ/ /ʔiuaŋX/ /ʔuɑŋH/
Wang
Li		 /uɑŋ/ /ĭwaŋX/ /uɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔwɑŋ/ /ʔiwaŋX/ /ʔwɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wāng wǎng wàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 汪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔwang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʷˤaŋ/
English vast; pool

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 汪 汪 汪
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 12715 12717 12741
Phonetic
component		 王 王 王
Rime
group		 陽 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 汪 盎 枉
Old
Chinese		 /*qʷaːŋ/ /*qʷaːŋs/ /*qʷaŋʔ/

Definitions

汪

  1. woof
  2. A surname​.

Descendants

  • (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Ang, Ong

Japanese

Kanji

汪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

汪 • ‎(wang) (hangeul 왕, revised wang, McCune-Reischauer wang, Yale wang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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