篁

篁 U+7BC1, 篁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7BC1 ← 節 [U+7BC0] CJK Unified Ideographs 篂 → [U+7BC2]

Translingual

Han character

篁 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹日土 (HHAG), four-corner 8810₄, composition ⿱𥫗皇)

1. bamboo
2. bamboo grove

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 892, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26249
• Dae Jaweon: page 1319, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2992, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7BC1

Chinese

trad.		篁
simp. #		篁

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

Rime
Character	篁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡光切
Baxter	hwang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋ/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋ/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	篁
Reading #	1/1
No.	12707
Phonetic component	王
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	黃
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋ/

Definitions

篁

1. (literary) bamboo forest; bamboo grove
2. (literary) bamboo

Synonyms

• (bamboo forest): 竹林 (zhúlín)

Dialectal synonyms of 竹子 (“bamboo”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		竹, 篁
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		竹子
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	竹子
	Taiwan	竹子
	Harbin	竹子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	竹子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	竹子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	竹子
	Wanrong	竹子
	Xi'an	竹子
	Xining	竹子
	Xuzhou	竹子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	竹子
	Ürümqi	竹子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	竹子
	Wuhan	竹子
	Guiyang	竹子
	Guilin	竹子
	Liuzhou	竹子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	竹子
	Yangzhou	竹子
	Hefei	竹子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	竹, 竹樹 plant
	Hong Kong	竹, 竹樹 plant
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	竹
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	竹
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	竹
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	竹
	Macau	竹
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	竹
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	竹
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	竹
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	竹
	Foshan	竹
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	竹
	Foshan (Shunde)	竹
	Foshan (Sanshui)	竹
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	竹
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	竹
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	竹
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	竹
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	竹
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	竹
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	竹
	Taishan	竹
	Kaiping (Chikan)	竹
	Enping (Niujiang)	竹
	Heshan (Yayao)	竹
	Dongguan	竹
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	竹
	Yangjiang	竹
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	竹
Gan	Nanchang	竹子
	Lichuan	竹仔
	Pingxiang	竹子
Hakka	Meixian	竹仔, 竹
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	竹
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	竹
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	竹
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	竹
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	竹
	Yudu	竹子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	竹仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	竹仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	竹仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	竹
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	竹仔, 竹
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	竹
	Hong Kong	竹
	Senai (Huiyang)	竹仔
Huizhou	Jixi	竹
Jin	Taiyuan	竹子
	Xinzhou	竹子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	竹
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	竹
Southern Min	Xiamen	竹, 竹仔
	Taipei	竹
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	竹
	Kaohsiung	竹仔
	Yilan	竹
	Changhua (Lukang)	竹
	Taichung	竹仔
	Tainan	竹
	Hsinchu	竹仔
	Kinmen	竹
	Penghu (Magong)	竹
	Penang (Hokkien)	竹
	Manila (Hokkien)	竹
	Chaozhou	竹
	Bangkok (Teochew)	竹
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	竹
	Leizhou	竹
	Haikou	竹
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	竹
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	竹, 竹根
Wu	Shanghai	竹頭
	Suzhou	竹頭
	Danyang	竹子
	Hangzhou	竹頭
	Ningbo	竹, 竹頭
	Wenzhou	竹
	Jinhua	竹兒
Xiang	Changsha	竹子
	Shuangfeng	竹子, 竹

Japanese

Kanji

篁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. bamboo grove

Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: たかむら (takamura, 篁)

Proper noun

篁(たかむら) • (Takamura) 

1. a surname

Korean

Hanja

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

1. bamboo grove