huǎng

to make wild statements to lie

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxwangm̥ˤaŋnonsense, lies
xwangXm̥ˤaŋʔlies
Zhengzhanghmaːŋ
hmaːŋʔ
hmaŋʔ

說文解字

夢言也。从言巟聲。

Sources

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