炎黃

See also: 炎黄

Chinese

		flame; inflammation; ‑itis	yellow
trad. (炎黃)		炎	黃
simp. (炎黄)		炎	黄

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Pronunciation

Rime
Character	炎	黃
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	鹽 (154)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	于廉切	胡光切
Baxter	hjem	hwang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠiᴇm/	/ɦwɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚiɛm/	/ɦʷɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiæm/	/ɣuɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦjiam/	/ɦwaŋ/
Li Rong	/ɣjɛm/	/ɣuɑŋ/
Wang Li	/ɣĭɛm/	/ɣuɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛm/	/ɣwɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yán	huáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jim4	wong4

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	炎	黃
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yán	huáng
Middle Chinese	‹ hjem ›	‹ hwang ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)am/	/*N-kʷˁaŋ/
English	burn, blazing	yellow
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	炎	黃
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14315	5380
Phonetic component	炎	黄
Rime group	談	陽
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	炎	黃
Old Chinese	/*ɦlam/	/*ɡʷaːŋ/
Notes		甲金文象繫市（韍）之圍腰綬帶，取唐蘭釋黃爲衡綬但不取其尪本字說。非光聲

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yán-Huáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁴ wong⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Iām-Hông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yán-Huáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yánhuáng
    • Wade–Giles: Yen²-huang²
    • Yale: Yán-hwáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yanhwang
    • Palladius: Яньхуан (Janʹxuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn³⁵ xu̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jim⁴ wong⁴
    • Yale: yìhm wòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁴ wong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim⁴ wong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm²¹ wɔːŋ²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 炎黃／炎黄 閻王／阎王

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iām-Hông
    • Tâi-lô: Iām-Hông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iaxmhoong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iam²²⁻²¹ hɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iam⁴¹⁻²² hɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iam²²⁻²¹ hɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iam³³⁻¹¹ hɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iam³³⁻²¹ hɔŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: hjem hwang

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)am  N-kʷˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦlam  ɡʷaːŋ/

Proper noun

炎黃

1. Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor (two legendary rulers of pre-dynastic China)

Noun

炎黃

1. (figurative) ancestors of the Chinese nation

Derived terms

• 炎黃子孫／炎黄子孙 (Yán-Huáng zǐsūn)