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)

luminous
white, hoary

Derived characters

𰃉, 𭐐, 灝(灏), 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

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/

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	/ɦɑu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaw^X/
Li Rong	/ɣɑu^X/
Wang Li	/ɣɑu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣɑu^X/
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

(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

(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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