曠野

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Chinese

waste; wilderness
field; plain; open space
field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; wild
 
trad. (曠野)
simp. (旷野)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Initial () (29) (36)
Final () (102) (100)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter khwangH yaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰwɑŋH/ /jiaX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷɑŋH/ /jiaX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuɑŋH/ /iaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwaŋH/ /jiaX/
Li
Rong
/kʰuɑŋH/ /iaX/
Wang
Li
/kʰuɑŋH/ /jĭaX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰwɑŋH/ /i̯aX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuàng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fong3 je5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuàng
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwangH › ‹ X ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁaŋ-s/ /*lAʔ/
English desolate, waste open country

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
Reading # 1/1 1/2
No. 5373 15722
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷaːŋs/ /*laːʔ/

Noun

曠野

  1. wilderness

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (曠野):
  • Japanese: (こう)() (kōya)
  • Korean: 광야(曠野) (gwang'ya)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
こう
Hyōgai

Grade: 2
on'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 曠野 – see the following entry.
広野こうや
wilderness; field
Alternative spelling
昿野
(This term, 曠野, is an alternative spelling (dated) of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

曠野 (gwang'ya) (hangeul 광야)

  1. hanja form? of 광야 (wilderness)