荒

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See also: 㐬
荒 U+8352, 荒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8352
← 荑
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 荓 →

荒 U+FAB3, 荒
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FAB3
← 者
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 華 →

Translingual

Han character

荒 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜女山 (TYVU), four-corner 44211, composition ⿱艹巟)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1031, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30953
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1490, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3209, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8352

Chinese

trad. 荒
simp. # 荒
alternative forms 㐬
𮎰
𠃤
𠯚
𦮋

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 荒
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs) : semantic 艹 (“grass, plant”) + phonetic 巟 (OC *hmaːŋ). Note: The middle part could be found as 亾 instead of 亡.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“not”). Cognate with 亡 (OC *maŋ, “to disappear”). The voiceless initial is possibly from the devoicing effect of an early (i.e. Proto-Sino-Tibetan) causative prefix *s- on 亡 (i.e. PST *s-maŋ > *hmaŋ > Middle Chinese hwɑŋ) which was subsequently lost.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • hong - literary;
  • hng/huiⁿ - vernacular.
Note:
  • huang1 - literary;
  • hng1 - vernacular.
    Rime
    Character 荒 荒
    Reading # 1/2 2/2
    Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 曉 (32)
    Final (韻) 唐 (102) 唐 (102)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Closed Closed
    Division (等) I I
    Fanqie 呼光切 呼浪切
    Baxter xwang xwangH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/hwɑŋ/ /hwɑŋH/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/hʷɑŋ/ /hʷɑŋH/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/xuɑŋ/ /xuɑŋH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/hwaŋ/ /hwaŋH/
    Li
    Rong         		/xuɑŋ/ /xuɑŋH/
    Wang
    Li         		/xuɑŋ/ /xuɑŋH/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/xwɑŋ/ /xwɑŋH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		huāng huàng
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		fong1 fong3
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 荒
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		huāng
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ xwang ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*m̥ˁaŋ/
    English wasteland; uncultivated land

    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 荒 荒
    Reading # 1/2 2/2
    No. 12649 12659
    Phonetic
    component         		亡 亡
    Rime
    group         		陽 陽
    Rime
    subdivision         		0 0
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		荒 荒
    Old
    Chinese         		/*hmaːŋ/ /*hmaːŋs/

    Definitions

    荒

    1. wasteland; uncultivated land; desert
    2. uncultivated; barren; desolate
    3. unreasonable; absurd

    Compounds

    Japanese

    Kanji

    荒

    (Jōyō kanji)

    1. uncultivated, wild
    2. desolate, barren

    Readings

    Korean

    Etymology 1

    Hanja

    荒 (eumhun 거칠 황 (geochil hwang))

    1. rough; sparse; wild

    Etymology 2

    Hanja

    荒 (eumhun 공허할 강 (gongheohal gang))

    1. empty, blank

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    荒: Hán Nôm readings: hoang, hoăng

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