皇太后

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Chinese

Chinese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia zh
emperor; surname empress dowager
simp. and trad.
(皇太后) 		皇 太后

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 皇 太 后 后
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 透 (6) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 唐 (102) 泰 (25) 侯 (137) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Open Open Open
Division (等) I I I I
Fanqie 胡光切 他蓋切 胡口切 胡遘切
Baxter hwang thajH huwX huwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦwɑŋ/ /tʰɑiH/ /ɦəuX/ /ɦəuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷɑŋ/ /tʰɑiH/ /ɦəuX/ /ɦəuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣuɑŋ/ /tʰɑiH/ /ɣəuX/ /ɣəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦwaŋ/ /tʰajH/ /ɦəwX/ /ɦəwH/
Li
Rong 		/ɣuɑŋ/ /tʰɑiH/ /ɣuX/ /ɣuH/
Wang
Li 		/ɣuɑŋ/ /tʰɑiH/ /ɣəuX/ /ɣəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣwɑŋ/ /tʰɑiH/ /ɣə̯uX/ /ɣə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		huáng tài hòu hòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wong4 taai3 hau6 hau6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 皇 皇 太 后
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		huáng huáng tài hòu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hwang › ‹ hwang › ‹ thajH › ‹ huwX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷˁaŋ/ /*ʷˁaŋ/ /*l̥ˁa-s/ /*ɢˁ(r)oʔ/
English yellow and white spotted sovereign great sovereign; queen

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 皇 太 后 后
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/2 2/2
No. 12696 1937 5168 5172
Phonetic
component 		王 大 后 后
Rime
group 		陽 祭 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision 		0 1 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		黃 泰 厚 𠋫
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡʷaːŋ/ /*tʰaːds/ /*ɡoːʔ/ /*ɡoːs/
Notes 禮王制鄭注冕屬，
金文象羽冠，王聲；或雲象日射輝則爲暀晃初文

Noun

皇太后

  1. empress dowager

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (皇太后):

Others:

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
Kanji in this term
皇 太 后
こう
Grade: 6 		たい
Grade: 2 		ごう
Grade: 6
on'yomi

Noun

皇(こう)太(たい)后(ごう) • (kōtaigō) 

  1. empress dowager
    Synonym: 太后 (taigō)

Korean

Hanja in this term
皇太后

Noun

皇太后 • (hwangtaehu) (hangeul 황태후)

  1. hanja form? of 황태후 (“empress dowager”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
皇太后

Noun

皇太后

  1. chữ Hán form of hoàng thái hậu (“empress dowager”).
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