# 隍

| 隍 | U+968D, &#38541; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-968D |
| ← 隌 [U+968C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 階 → [U+968E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

隍 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹日土 (NLHAG), four-corner 7621$_4$, composition ⿰阝皇)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1357, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41754
* Dae Jaweon: page 1861, character 8
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4147, character 3
* Unihan data for U+968D

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | 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 |
| 鍠 | *ɡʷraːŋ |
| 揘 | *ɡʷaŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷaːŋ) : semantic 阝 + phonetic 皇 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): huáng (huang$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wong$^4$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): horng$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hông
    (Teochew, Peng'im): huang$^5$ / ng$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: huáng
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: huáng
*** Wade–Giles: huang$^2$
*** Yale: hwáng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwang
*** Palladius: хуан (xuan)
*** Sinological IPA : /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wong$^4$
*** Yale: wòhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wong$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wong$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɔːŋ²¹/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: horng$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɒŋ¹³/
* Southern Min
** (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/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: huang$^5$ / ng$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huâng / n̂g
*** Sinological IPA : /huaŋ⁵⁵/, /ŋ⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: hwang
Rime :
| Character | 隍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 唐 (102) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 胡光切 |
| Baxter | hwang |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɦwɑŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɦʷɑŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɣuɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɦwaŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /ɣuɑŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /ɣuɑŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ɣwɑŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | huáng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wong$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 隍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | huáng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ hwang › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/ |
| English | moat |
| 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 | 隍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12704 |
| Phonetic component | 王 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 黃 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡʷaːŋ/ |

### Definitions

隍
* dry moat
* the tutelary deity of a Chinese village, town, or city

### Compounds

* 城隍 (chénghuáng)
* 城隍廟／城隍庙 (chénghuángmiào)
* 城隍爺／城隍爷 (Chénghuángyé)
* 打城隍
* 池隍
* 留隍
* 𨻧隍 (Liúhuáng)

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “隍”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 94.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* dry moat

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): こう (kō)
* Kun: ほり (hori)

## Korean
### Hanja

隍 • (hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune–Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

隍: Hán Việt readings: hoàng
隍: Nôm readings: hoàng
* chữ Hán form of hoàng (“dry moat”).

### References

* 1 2 Trần (2004).
* ↑ Trần (1999).
* ↑ Nguyễn (1974).
* ↑ Thiều Chửu (1942).