閎

See also: 闳

閎 U+958E, 閎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958E ← 閍 [U+958D] CJK Unified Ideographs 閏 → [U+958F]

Translingual

Han character

閎 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日弓大戈 (ANKI), four-corner 7743₀, composition ⿵門厷)

1. gate
2. barrier
3. wide
4. vast
5. expand

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1331, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41241
• Dae Jaweon: page 1837, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4287, character 6
• Unihan data for U+958E

Chinese

trad.		閎
simp.		闳

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
肱	*kʷɯːŋ
宏	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
閎	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
吰	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
竑	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
谹	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
翃	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
紘	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
鈜	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
浤	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
耾	*ɡʷrɯːŋ
雄	*ɡʷɯŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hóng (hong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wang⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hóng
    • Wade–Giles: hung²
    • Yale: húng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: horng
    • Palladius: хун (xun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wang⁴
    • Yale: wàhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: weng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hweang

Rime
Character	閎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	耕 (118)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	戸萌切
Baxter	hweang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠwɛŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚæŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwəɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/ɣuɛŋ/
Wang Li	/ɣwæŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwæŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hóng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wang4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷrɯːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	閎
Reading #	1/1
No.	4131
Phonetic component	厷
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	宏
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷrɯːŋ/

Definitions

閎

1. gate, barrier
2. wide, vast, expand
3. a surname

Compounds

• 閈閎／闬闳
• 閎澤／闳泽
• 閎衍／闳衍
• 閎誕／闳诞
• 閎閎／闳闳

 

Japanese

Kanji

閎

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. gate
2. barrier
3. wide
4. vast
5. expand

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)、おう (ō)

Korean

Hanja

閎 • (goeng) (hangeul 굉, revised goeng, McCune–Reischauer koeng, Yale koyng)

1. gate
2. barrier
3. wide
4. vast
5. expand