顥

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See also: 颢
顥 U+9865, 顥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9865
← 顤
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 顦 →

Translingual

Han character

顥 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+12, 21 strokes, cangjie input 日火一月金 (AFMBC) or 難日火一月 (XAFMB), four-corner 61986, composition ⿰景頁)

  1. luminous
  2. white, hoary

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1409, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43682
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1927, character 42
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4391, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+9865

Chinese

trad. 顥
simp. 颢
alternative forms 𫖧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 顥
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (昊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
昊 *ɡuːʔ
顥 *ɡuːʔ
灝 *ɡuːʔ, *kuːmʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 景 (“daylight”) + 頁 (“head (hair)”). According to the Shuowen Jiezi Zhu, it represents bright sunlight and the white hair in someone's head, signifying whiteness.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 顥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡老切
Baxter hawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦawX/
Li
Rong 		/ɣɑuX/
Wang
Li 		/ɣɑuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɣɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		hào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hou6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 顥
Reading # 1/1
No. 4923
Phonetic
component 		昊
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		晧
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡuːʔ/
Notes 象登高仰首觀日，
表晴白氣爽，與晧昊同字

Definitions

顥

  1. (literary) white and shining

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

顥

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): こう (kō)、ごう (gō)
  • Kun: しろい (shiroi)

Korean

Hanja

顥 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

顥: Hán Nôm readings: hạo

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