huáng

sulphur

A yellow  mineral  also provides the pronunciation

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

黄 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

huáng

  

yellow

Evolution

磺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
磺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
磺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huáng

sulphur; brimstone; sulfur

Most common words with 磺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

硫磺

sulfur

sulfur

磺胺

sulfa drugs

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.0892% of movies

3077th most common character in movies

3547th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+78FA

Shuowen

“磺,銅鐵樸石也。从石,黃聲。讀若穬。卝,古文磺。《周禮》有卝人。”


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