Character: 王
Modern (Beijing) reading: wáng wàng [wǎng] [yù]
Preclassic Old Chinese: whaŋ whaŋs
Classic Old Chinese: whaŋ
Western Han Chinese: whaŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: whaŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: whaŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: whaŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: whaŋ
Middle Chinese: waŋ wàŋ
Fanqie: 余狂 [a] 喻貺 [b]
Rhyme class: 陽 [a] 漾 [b] 養 [c] 沃 [d]
English meaning : king
Russian meaning[s]: 1) князь, царь; король; королевский; 2) совершенный правитель; 3) Ван (фамилия); [wàng] 1) княжить, править; 2) см. 旺; [yù] см. 玉
Shuowen gloss: 天下所歸往也. 董仲舒曰. 古之造文者. 三畫而連其中謂之王. 三者. 天地人也. 而參通之者王也. 孔子曰. 一貫三為王. 凡王之屬皆從王.
Comments: Also read *whaŋ-s, MC wàŋ 'be king over, govern'. Standard Sino-Viet. is vu'o'ng. For *wh- cf. Chaozhou heŋ2.
Radical: 96
Four-angle index: 312
Karlgren code: 0739 a-h
Vietnamese reading: vua
Shijing occurrences: 10.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 40.2, 40.3
