# 璜

| 璜 | U+749C, &#29852; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-749C |
| ← 璛 [U+749B] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 璝 → [U+749D] |

## Translingual
### Han character

璜 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一土廿中金 (MGTLC), four-corner 1418$_6$, composition ⿰𤣩黄)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 742, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21242
* Dae Jaweon: page 1151, character 19
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1134, character 2
* Unihan data for U+749C

## Chinese

* 璜

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 僙 | *kʷaːŋ |
| 廣 | *kʷaːŋʔ |
| 鄺 | *kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ |
| 懬 | *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ |
| 爌 | *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ |
| 曠 | *kʰʷaːŋs |
| 矌 | *kʰʷaːŋs |
| 壙 | *kʰʷaːŋs |
| 纊 | *kʰʷaːŋs |
| 黃 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 璜 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 潢 | *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs |
| 簧 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 癀 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 鱑 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 獚 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 蟥 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 趪 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 櫎 | *ɡʷaːŋʔ |
| 擴 | *ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ |
| 瀇 | *qʷaːŋʔ |
| 獷 | *kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ |
| 觵 | *kʷraːŋ |
| 礦 | *kʷraːŋʔ |
| 鑛 | *kʷraːŋʔ |
| 穬 | *kʷraːŋʔ |
| 橫 | *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ |
| 黌 | *ɡʷraːŋ |
| 鐄 | *ɡʷraːŋ |
| 嚝 | *qʰʷraːŋ |
| 彉 | *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ |
| 彍 | *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷaːŋ) : semantic 𤣩 (“jade”) + phonetic 黃 (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): hêng / hông
* 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: hêng / hông
*** Tâi-lô: hîng / hông
*** Phofsit Daibuun: heeng, hoong
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hiɪŋ²⁴/, /hɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɪŋ²⁴/, /hɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɪŋ¹³/, /hɔŋ¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /hiɪŋ²⁴/, /hɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɪŋ²³/, /hɔŋ²³/
* Middle Chinese: hwang
Rime :
| Character | 璜 |
| 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
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 璜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5381 |
| Phonetic component | 黄 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 黃 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡʷaːŋ/ |

### Definitions

璜
* (historical) semi-circular jade pendant used for ritual and ornamental purposes
* Used in 璜璜.

### Compounds

* 玉璜
* 璜璜
* 璜臺／璜台
* 裝璜／装璜 (zhuānghuáng)

### References

* “璜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “璜”, 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)
* jade ornament semicircular in shape

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): こう (kō)、おう (ō)

## Korean
### Hanja

璜 • (hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune–Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)
* a semicircular jade ornament used as a pendant