潢 · huáng
expanse of water, lake, pond
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
expanse of water, lake, pond
- Mandarin
- huáng
- Cantonese
- wong4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 潢 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 황
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6F62
- Radical
- 水 · 85
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 12
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 潢
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 黃 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 黃聲
Line 11659 · ⿰氵黃 · 黃聲 · source reference 4102720
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- hwang · 胡光 反切 · #845
- Middle Chinese
- hwaeng · 戸盲 反切 · #864
- Middle Chinese
- hwangH · 乎曠 反切 · #2938
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6831 · hwang = 宕合一平唐匣 · hwaeng = 梗合二平庚匣 · hwangH = 宕合一去唐匣
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- huáng
- kCantonese
- wong4
- kDefinition
- expanse of water, lake, pond
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 85.12
- kTGH
- 2013:5800
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- huáng,huàng,guāng 31713.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- huáng 0496.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- huáng 146.150
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- huáng粵wong4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 胡光 戶盲 乎曠
- Kangxi positions
- 0649.200
- Guangyun positions
- 181.18 428.39
- GSR references
- 0707e
- Cangjie
- ETMC
- Four-corner
- 3418.6