煌
huáng HSK7

bright

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 皇 represents the sound.

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
皇
皇 Sound component
huáng royal

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwang[ɢ]ʷˤaŋbrilliant; 敦煌 Dūnhuáng
Zhengzhangɡʷaːŋ
Unicodehuɑng

說文解字

煌，煇也。从火皇聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)