顥

See also: 颢

顥 U+9865, 顥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9865 ← 顤 [U+9864] CJK Unified Ideographs 顦 → [U+9866]

Translingual

Han character

顥 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+12, 21 strokes, cangjie input 日火一月金 (AFMBC) or 難日火一月 (XAFMB), four-corner 6198₆, composition ⿰景頁)

1. luminous
2. white, hoary

Derived characters

• 𰃉 灝 (灏) 𭐐 𭨖

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1409, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43682
• Dae Jaweon: page 1927, character 42
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4391, character 8
• Unihan data for U+9865

Chinese

trad.		顥
simp.		颢
alternative forms		𫖧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 顥
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (昊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
昊	*ɡuːʔ
顥	*ɡuːʔ
灝	*ɡuːʔ, *kuːmʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 景 (“daylight”) + 頁 (“head (hair)”). According to the Shuowen Jiezi Zhu, it represents bright sunlight and the white hair in someone's head, signifying whiteness.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hào (hao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hō

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hào
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hào
    • Wade–Giles: hao⁴
    • Yale: hàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haw
    • Palladius: хао (xao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou⁶
    • Yale: houh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō
    • Tâi-lô: hō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ho²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ho⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ho³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: hawX

Rime
Character	顥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡老切
Baxter	hawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦawX/
Li Rong	/ɣɑuX/
Wang Li	/ɣɑuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡuːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	顥
Reading #	1/1
No.	4923
Phonetic component	昊
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	晧
Old Chinese	/*ɡuːʔ/
Notes	象登高仰首觀日， 表晴白氣爽，與晧昊同字

Definitions

顥

1. (literary) white and shining

Compounds

• 顥天／颢天
• 顥氣／颢气
• 顥穹／颢穹
• 顥蒼／颢苍
• 顥露／颢露
• 顥顥／颢颢

 

References

• “顥”, 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

顥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō); ごう (gō)
• Kun: しろい (shiroi)

Korean

Hanja

顥 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

顥: Hán Nôm readings: hạo

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