浩浩

Chinese

		grand; vast (water)	grand; vast (water)
simp. and trad. (浩浩)		浩	浩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hàohào

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˋ ㄏㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou⁶ hou⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hàohào
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ ㄏㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hàohào
    • Wade–Giles: hao⁴-hao⁴
    • Yale: hàu-hàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hawhaw
    • Palladius: хаохао (xaoxao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ xɑʊ̯⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou⁶ hou⁶
    • Yale: houh houh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou⁶ hou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou⁶ hou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯²² hou̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: hawX hawX

Rime
Character	浩
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡老切
Baxter	hawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦawX/
Li Rong	/ɣɑuX/
Wang Li	/ɣɑuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤuʔ  [ɡ]ˤuʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡuːʔ  ɡuːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	浩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hào
Middle Chinese	‹ hawX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁuʔ/
English	vast
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	浩
Reading #	1/2
No.	3810
Phonetic component	告
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	晧
Old Chinese	/*ɡuːʔ/

Adjective

浩浩

1. (of water) vast, expansive, boundless
2. vast; extensive

Derived terms

• 浩浩湯湯 / 浩浩汤汤 (hàohàoshāngshāng)
• 浩浩蕩蕩 / 浩浩荡荡 (hàohàodàngdàng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (浩浩):

• → Korean: 호호(浩浩) (hoho)