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荒

荒

See also: 㐬

Translingual

Han character

荒 (radical 140 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜女山 (TYVU), four-corner 44211, composition ⿱艹巟)

  1. wasteland, desert
  2. uncultivated

Note: The middle part could be found as 亾 instead of 亡.

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1031, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30953
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1490, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3209, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8352

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 荒

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 荒 荒
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 唐 (102) 唐 (102)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 呼光切 呼浪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hwɑŋ/ /hwɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hʷɑŋ/ /hʷɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuɑŋ/ /xuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwaŋ/ /hwaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /xuɑŋ/ /xuɑŋH/
Wang
Li		 /xuɑŋ/ /xuɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xwɑŋ/ /xwɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huāng huàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 荒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xwang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m̥ˤaŋ/
English wasteland; uncultivated land

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 荒 荒
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12649 12659
Phonetic
component		 亡 亡
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 荒 荒
Old
Chinese		 /*hmaːŋ/ /*hmaːŋs/

Definitions

荒

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Japanese

Kanji

荒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. rough; sparse; wild

Readings

Korean

Hanja

荒 • ‎(hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune-Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

荒 (hoang, hoăng)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 荒
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
忙 *maːŋ
芒 *maːŋ, *maŋ
茫 *maːŋ
恾 *maːŋ
吂 *maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒 *maːŋ, *maŋs
朚 *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙 *maːŋ, *maŋ
杗 *maːŋ, *maŋ
荒 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓 *hmaːŋ
衁 *hmaːŋ
巟 *hmaːŋ
詤 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊 *hmaːŋʔ
喪 *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡 *maŋ
望 *maŋ, *maŋs
莣 *maŋ
朢 *maŋ, *maŋs
鋩 *maŋ
硭 *maŋ
忘 *maŋ, *maŋs
网 *mlaŋʔ
罔 *mlaŋʔ
蛧 *maŋʔ
網 *mlaŋʔ
輞 *maŋʔ
棢 *maŋʔ
惘 *maŋʔ
菵 *maŋʔ
誷 *maŋʔ
魍 *maŋʔ
妄 *maŋs
盲 *mraːŋ
蝱 *mraːŋ
虻 *mraːŋ
氓 *mraːŋ
甿 *mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs) : semantic 艹 ‎(“grass, plant”) + phonetic 巟 ‎(OC *hmaːŋ) – lack of plants

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