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Modern (Beijing) reading: huáng
Preclassic Old Chinese: ghʷāŋ
Classic Old Chinese: ghwāŋ
Western Han Chinese: wāŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: wāŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: wāŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: wāŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: wāŋ
Middle Chinese: ɣwâŋ
English meaning : be yellow, brown
Russian meaning[s]: 1) желтый; желтеть; желтизна; 2) золотой, золотисто-желтый; перен. императорский, дворцовый; 3) желторотый; молокосос; дитя; 4) изжелта-седой; старик; 5) сокр. р. Хуанхэ; 6) астр. сокр. эклиптика; 7) хим. сокр. сера; 8) миф. сокр. Хуанди; 9) разг. не выйти, не получиться; 10) Хуан (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 地之色也.從田.#聲.#,古文光.凡黃之屬皆從黃.
Comments: For *gh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou ŋ2, Fuzhou uoŋ2, Jianou uaŋ2 (pointing to CC *ɣwāŋ).

    A colloquial loan from the same source is Viet. vàng 'yellow; gold'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 201
Four-angle index: 8143
Karlgren code: 0707 a-b
Vietnamese reading: hoàng
Jianchuan Bai: ŋü7
Dali Bai: ŋü7
Bijiang Bai: ŋo7
Shijing occurrences: 2.1, 3.3_, 27.1, 27.2, 32.4, 58.4
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