嫄

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嫄 U+5AC4, 嫄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AC4
← 嫃
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嫅 →

Translingual

Han character

嫄 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女一竹火 (VMHF), four-corner 41496, composition ⿰女原)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6606
  • Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1071, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5AC4

Chinese

trad. 嫄
simp. # 嫄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嫄
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (原) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羱 *ŋʷaːn, *ŋʷan
豲 *ɦŋʷaːn
謜 *sŋ̊ʰʷan, *ŋʷan
縓 *sŋ̊ʰʷan, *sŋ̊ʰʷans
原 *ŋʷan
源 *ŋʷan
厵 *ŋʷan
嫄 *ŋʷan
騵 *ŋʷan
榞 *ŋʷan
獂 *ŋʷan
蒝 *ŋʷan
願 *ŋʷans
傆 *ŋʷans
愿 *ŋʷans

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 嫄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 愚袁切
Baxter ngjwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋiuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋuan/
Li
Rong 		/ŋiuɐn/
Wang
Li 		/ŋĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ŋi̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yuán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jyun4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 嫄
Reading # 1/1
No. 16189
Phonetic
component 		原
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		元
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋʷan/

Definitions

嫄

  1. Only used in 姜嫄 (Jiāngyuán, “Jiang Yuan”).

Japanese

Kanji

嫄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ごん (gon)
  • Kan-on: げん (gen)←げん (gen, historical)←ぐゑん (gwen, ancient)
  • Kan’yō-on: がん (gan)←ぐわん (gwan, historical)

Korean

Hanja

嫄 (eum 원 (won))

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