磺

磺	U+78FA, 磺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78FA

← 磹
[U+78F9]

CJK Unified Ideographs

磻 →
[U+78FB]

Translingual

Han character

磺 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿中金 (MRTLC), four-corner 1468₆, composition ⿰石黄 (GV) or ⿰石黃 (HTJK))

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 836, character 35
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24487
Dae Jaweon: page 1254, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2451, character 5
Unihan data for U+78FA

Chinese

trad.		磺
simp. ^#		磺

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 石 (“rock; stone”) + phonetic 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huáng (huang²)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wong⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hông / n̂g / ûiⁿ

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/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hông
  - Tâi-lô: hông
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoong
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /hɔŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: n̂g
  - Tâi-lô: n̂g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ngg
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋ̍²³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /ŋ̍²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ûiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: uînn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: vuii
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /uĩ¹³/

Note:

hông - literary;
n̂g/ûiⁿ - vernacular.

Definitions

磺

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, chemistry) sulfur, brimstone
Synonym: 硫 (liú)
(chemistry) sulfonyl

Compounds

上磺 (Shànghuáng)
牛磺酸 (niúhuángsuān)
硫磺 (liúhuáng)
硫磺泉
硫磺群島 / 硫磺群岛
硫磺谷
磺潭 (Huángtán)
磺胺 (huáng'àn)
磺胺劑 / 磺胺剂
磺酰基 (huángxiānjī)
磺酰胺 (huángxiān'àn)
磺酸 (huángsuān)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 磺 – see 礦 (“mineral deposit; ore; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 礦).

References

“磺”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

磺

(Hyōgai kanji)

sulfur

Readings

Go-on: おう (ō)^{←わう (wau, historical)}
Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

磺 • (gwang) (hangeul 광, revised gwang, McCune–Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

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