黈

黈

黈 U+9EC8, 黈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EC8 ← 黇 [U+9EC7] CJK Unified Ideographs 黉 → [U+9EC9]

Translingual

Han character

黈 (radical 201, 黃+5, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿金卜土 (TCYG), four-corner 4081₄, composition ⿰黄主)

1. yellow
2. augment, increase

References

• KangXi: page 1516, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47937
• Dae Jaweon: page 2048, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4597, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9EC8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		黈
variant forms		斢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (主) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
飳	*tʰoːʔ
妵	*tʰoːʔ
黈	*tʰoːʔ
蘣	*tʰoːʔ
罜	*doːɡ, *tjos
拄	*toʔ
柱	*toʔ, *doʔ
駐	*tos
註	*tos, *tjos
鉒	*tos
軴	*tos
住	*tos, *dos
跓	*doʔ
嵀	*doʔ
主	*tjoʔ
麈	*tjoʔ
宔	*tjoʔ
炷	*tjoʔ, *tjos
注	*tjos
疰	*tjos
蛀	*tjos
霔	*tjos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǒu (tou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄡˇ
    • Wade–Giles: t'ou³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: toou
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰoʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tau²
    • Yale: táu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: teo²
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɐu̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰəu^X/▼

Rime
Character	黈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	天口切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰəuX/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰəuX/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰəwX/
Li Rong	/tʰuX/
Wang Li	/tʰəuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tǒu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰoːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	黈
Reading #	1/1
No.	17604
Phonetic component	主
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	𪌜
Old Chinese	/*tʰoːʔ/

Definitions

黈

1. yellow
2. Used in 黈益.

Compounds

黈益

黈纊／黈纩

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B06238

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Japanese

Kanji

黈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō), つ (tsu)
• Kun: きいろ (kiiro)

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Korean

Hanja

黈 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

1. 누른빛: yellowy