huáng

dry ditch

Components

Meaning component
hill, place

place

Sound component
huáng royal

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwang[ɢ]ʷˤaŋmoat
Zhengzhangɡʷaːŋ
Unicodehuɑng

說文解字

城池也。有水曰池,無水曰隍。从𨸏皇聲。《易》曰:“城復于隍。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica