蝗

Translingual

Han character

蝗 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹日土 (LIHAG), four-corner 5611₄, composition ⿰虫皇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1089, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33267
• Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2871, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8757

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蝗

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (王) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
皇	*ɡʷaːŋ
惶	*ɡʷaːŋ
遑	*ɡʷaːŋ
堭	*ɡʷaːŋ
煌	*ɡʷaːŋ
餭	*ɡʷaːŋ
騜	*ɡʷaːŋ
艎	*ɡʷaːŋ
隍	*ɡʷaːŋ
湟	*ɡʷaːŋ
徨	*ɡʷaːŋ
篁	*ɡʷaːŋ
蝗	*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
凰	*ɡʷaːŋ
偟	*ɡʷaːŋ
媓	*ɡʷaːŋ
韹	*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
葟	*ɡʷaːŋ
皝	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
汪	*qʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋs, *qʷaŋʔ
尪	*qʷaːŋ
迋	*kʷaŋʔ, *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
逛	*kʷaŋʔ
誑	*kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
匡	*kʰʷaŋ
筐	*kʰʷaŋ
框	*kʰʷaŋ
眶	*kʰʷaŋ
誆	*kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
邼	*kʰʷaŋ
恇	*kʰʷaŋ
劻	*kʰʷaŋ
洭	*kʰʷaŋ
軭	*kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ
狂	*ɡʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
軖	*ɡʷaŋ
鵟	*ɡʷaŋ
俇	*ɡʷaŋʔ
王	*ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
蚟	*ɢʷaŋ
彺	*ɢʷaŋ
旺	*ɢʷaŋs
諻	*qʰʷraːŋ
喤	*qʰʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
瑝	*ɡʷraːŋ
鍠	*ɡʷraːŋ
揘	*ɡʷaŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huáng (huang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huáng
    • Wade–Giles: huang²
    • Yale: hwáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwang
    • Palladius: хуан (xuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wong⁴
    • Yale: wòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔːŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hwang, hwaeng, hwaengH

Rime
Character	蝗	蝗	蝗
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)	庚 (110)	庚 (110)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	II	II
Fanqie	胡光切	戸盲切	戸孟切
Baxter	hwang	hwaeng	hwaengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɑŋ/	/ɦˠwæŋ/	/ɦˠwæŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋ/	/ɦʷᵚaŋ/	/ɦʷᵚaŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋ/	/ɣuaŋ/	/ɣuaŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋ/	/ɦwaɨjŋ/	/ɦwaɨjŋH/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋ/	/ɣuɐŋ/	/ɣuɐŋH/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋ/	/ɣwɐŋ/	/ɣwɐŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋ/	/ɣwɐŋ/	/ɣwɐŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huáng	hóng	hòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong4	wang4	wang6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋ/, /*ɡʷraːŋ/, /*ɡʷraːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蝗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huáng
Middle Chinese	‹ hwang ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/
English	locust
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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	蝗	蝗	蝗
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	12708	12753	12755
Phonetic component	王	王	王
Rime group	陽	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	黃	橫	蝗
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋ/	/*ɡʷraːŋ/	/*ɡʷraːŋs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蝗

1. locust
2. (Hong Kong, derogatory) swarms of Mainlander migrants

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Japanese

Kanji

蝗

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Kanji in this term
蝗
いなご Hyōgai
kun'yomi

• Go-on: おう (ō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: いなご (inago)

Noun

蝗(いなご) • (inago) 

1. イナゴ, 稲子: grasshopper

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Korean

Hanja

蝗 • (hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune–Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 蝗 (hoàng)

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