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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水廿金 (ETC), four-corner 34181, composition)

  1. vast, immense
  2. flood, deluge

References

  • KangXi: page 621, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17402
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1017, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1602, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6D2A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs
*ɡroːŋs
*ɡroːŋs
*ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs
*qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs
*ɡloːŋ
*ɡloːŋ
*ɡloːŋ
*ɡoːŋ
*ɡloːŋs
*ɡloːŋs
*kloŋ
*kloŋ, *kloŋs
*kloŋ
*kloŋ, *kloŋʔ
*kloŋ, *ɡloŋs
*kloŋ
*kloŋʔ
*kloŋʔ, *kloɡ
*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
*kloŋʔ
*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
*ɡloŋ
*kloɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡloːŋ) : semantic  (water) + phonetic  (OC *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs) – a flood.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəwŋ/
Li
Rong
/ɣuŋ/
Wang
Li
/ɣuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hóng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 4156
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡloːŋ/

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(hong) (hangeul , revised hong, McCune-Reischauer hong, Yale hong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hồng, hòng)

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