洸

洸 U+6D38, 洸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D38 ← 洷 [U+6D37] CJK Unified Ideographs 洹 → [U+6D39]

Translingual

Han character

洸 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水火一山 (EFMU), four-corner 3911₁, composition ⿰氵光)

1. sparkle, glitter

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 622, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17419
• Dae Jaweon: page 1018, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1606, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6D38

Chinese

simp. and trad.		洸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 洸
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (光) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
光	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
灮	*kʷaːŋ
洸	*kʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋ
桄	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
胱	*kʷaːŋ
垙	*kʷaːŋ
輄	*kʷaːŋ
恍	*kʷaːŋ, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
茪	*kʷaːŋ
侊	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷraːŋ
晃	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
幌	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
榥	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
滉	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
觥	*kʷraːŋ
駫	*kʷeːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋ) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 光 (OC *kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guāng, huàng, huǎng (guang¹, huang⁴, huang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄤ, ㄏㄨㄤˋ, ㄏㄨㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guang
    • Wade–Giles: kuang¹
    • Yale: gwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guang
    • Palladius: гуан (guan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàng
    • Wade–Giles: huang⁴
    • Yale: hwàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huanq
    • Palladius: хуан (xuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huǎng
    • Wade–Giles: huang³
    • Yale: hwǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hoang
    • Palladius: хуан (xuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwong¹
    • Yale: gwōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kwang, 'wang

Rime
Character	洸	洸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古黃切	烏光切
Baxter	kwang	'wang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwɑŋ/	/ʔwɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑŋ/	/ʔʷɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑŋ/	/ʔuɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaŋ/	/ʔwaŋ/
Li Rong	/kuɑŋ/	/ʔuɑŋ/
Wang Li	/kuɑŋ/	/uɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwɑŋ/	/ʔwɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guāng	wāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwong1	wong1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaːŋ/, /*qʷaːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	洸	洸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4508	4523
Phonetic component	光	光
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		汪
Old Chinese	/*kʷaːŋ/	/*qʷaːŋ/

Definitions

洸

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Compounds

• 洸洸
• 洸洋

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02081

Japanese

Kanji

洸

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. (of water) Surging; spreading.
2. (of water) Expansive; both deep and wide.
3. (of a living being) Courageous.
4. (of light) Dim; faint.

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: ほのか (honoka, 洸か)

Korean

Hanja

洸 (eum 광 (gwang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

洸: Hán Nôm readings: thoáng

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References

• Nom Foundation