huáng
kind of locust
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 皇 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ | hwang | huáng | locust |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3271st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+8757 |
Shuowen | “蝗，螽也。从虫，皇聲。” |
Sources
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