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

他经营一家装潢公司。

Tā jīngyíng yì jiā zhuānghuáng gōngsī.

He runs an interior decoration company.

老师傅装潢了这幅画。

Lǎo shīfu 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).