肓

肓 U+8093, 肓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8093 ← 肒 [U+8092] CJK Unified Ideographs 肔 → [U+8094]

Translingual

Han character

肓 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜女月 (YVB), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿱亡月 (GJK) or ⿱亡⺼ (T))

1. region between heart and diaphragm

Derived characters

• 𤟂

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 973, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29259
• Dae Jaweon: page 1425, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2046, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8093

Chinese

trad.		肓
simp. #		肓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 肓
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
忙	*maːŋ
芒	*maːŋ, *maŋ
茫	*maːŋ
恾	*maːŋ
吂	*maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒	*maːŋ, *maŋs
朚	*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙	*maːŋ, *maŋ
杗	*maːŋ, *maŋ
荒	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓	*hmaːŋ
衁	*hmaːŋ
巟	*hmaːŋ
詤	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊	*hmaːŋʔ
喪	*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡	*maŋ
望	*maŋ, *maŋs
莣	*maŋ
朢	*maŋ, *maŋs
鋩	*maŋ
硭	*maŋ
忘	*maŋ, *maŋs
网	*mlaŋʔ
罔	*mlaŋʔ
蛧	*maŋʔ
網	*mlaŋʔ
輞	*maŋʔ
棢	*maŋʔ
惘	*maŋʔ
菵	*maŋʔ
誷	*maŋʔ
魍	*maŋʔ
妄	*maŋs
盲	*mraːŋ
蝱	*mraːŋ
虻	*mraːŋ
氓	*mraːŋ
甿	*mraːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huāng (huang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): horng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huang
    • Wade–Giles: huang¹
    • Yale: hwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huang
    • Palladius: хуан (xuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fong¹
    • Yale: fōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: horng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɒŋ⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xwang

Rime
Character	肓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼光切
Baxter	xwang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hwɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwaŋ/
Li Rong	/xuɑŋ/
Wang Li	/xuɑŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xwɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fong1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmaːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	肓
Reading #	1/1
No.	12650
Phonetic component	亡
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	荒
Old Chinese	/*hmaːŋ/

Definitions

肓

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) the part of human body between the heart and the diaphragm, which was thought to be unreachable by medicament

Usage notes

肓 (huāng) is not to be confused with 盲 (máng, “blind”).

Compounds

• 泉石膏肓
• 病入膏肓 (bìngrùgāohuāng)
• 病在膏肓
• 病染膏肓
• 膏肓 (gāohuāng)
• 膏肓之疾

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “肓”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 94.

Japanese

Kanji

肓

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. inaccessible region of the body (between the heart and the diaphragm)

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: むなもと (munamoto)

Korean

Hanja

肓 • (hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune–Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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