巟
huāng

a watery waste

Phonosemantic compound. 亡 represents the sound and 川 represents the meaning.

Components

亡
亡 Sound component
wáng death
川
川 Meaning component
chuān stream

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

荒

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxwangm̥ˤaŋ broad

說文解字

《說文》：“巟，水廣也。从川，亡聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)