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huáng

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huáng
  1. 1.brilliant

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  1. 1.bright; brilliant

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡʷaːŋ): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 皇 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ). Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Burmese လွင် (lwang, “vivid”) (Schuessler, 2007). 皇 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “royal”) may be the same word (ibid.). It may be related to 光 (OC *kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs, “light; bright”) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007). Wang (1982) additionally relates it to 景 (OC *kraŋʔ, “bright; sunlight”), 鏡 (OC *kraŋs, “mirror”), 晃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋʔ, “bright”), 曠 (OC *kʰʷaːŋs, “bright”).

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