潢 (huáng) · a pool of standing water

Meanings

1 a pool of standing water
2 to mount (a scroll or painting)

Characters

潢

huáng

a pool of water; to mount (a scroll)

Examples

HSK 5

他经营一家装潢公司。

Tā jīngyíng yì jiā zhuānghuáng gōngsī.

He runs an interior decoration company.

HSK 7-9

老师傅装潢了这幅画。

Lǎoshīfu zhuānghuáng le zhè fú huà.

The old master mounted and remounted this painting.

Tips

usage

Two senses: a pond of stagnant water (literary), and 'to mount/decorate' as in 装潢 (to mount a scroll; by extension, to decorate or do interior design).

Components

radical

氵 shuǐ

water

Left 氵 is the water radical 水 in left-side form. The base sense is a pool of standing water; the mounting sense comes from wetting paper to paste a scroll.

phonetic

黄 huáng

yellow; phonetic

Right 黄 supplies the sound exactly (huáng = huáng). The same phonetic anchors 横 (horizontal) and 璜 (a jade pendant).