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八荒

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Chinese

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eight out of practice; uncultivated
trad. (八荒)
simp. #(八荒)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (1) (32)
Final () (75) (102)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () II I
Fanqie
Baxter peat xwang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠɛt̚/ /hwɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚæt̚/ /hʷɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/pæt̚/ /xuɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pəɨt̚/ /hwaŋ/
Li
Rong
/pɛt̚/ /xuɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/pæt̚/ /xuɑŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/pat̚/ /xwɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ba huāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
baat3 fong1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ pɛt › ‹ xwang ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˁret/ /*m̥ˁaŋ/
English eight wasteland; uncultivated land

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
No. 89 12649
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*preːd/ /*hmaːŋ/

Noun

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八荒

  1. places that are remote and faraway
  2. (figurative) the world; everything under the sky; all under heaven

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
はち > はっ
Grade: 1
こう
Grade: S

Etymology

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/hakkwau/ > /hakkwoː/ > /hakkoː/. Literally the eight corners of the land. The eight corners are in the north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest and is a reference to the land as a whole.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(はっ)(こう) (hakkōはっくゎう (fakkwau)?

  1. the eight corners of the earth
  2. the world as a whole

See also

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