嫊
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Translingual
Han character
嫊 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女手一火 (VQMF), four-corner 45493, composition ⿰女素)
Further reading
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6613
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 8
- Unihan data for U+5ACA
Chinese
| trad. | 嫊 | |
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| simp. # | 嫊 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 嫊 |
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| Western Zhou |
| Bronze inscriptions |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 素 (OC *saːs).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: sù
- Wade–Giles: su4
- Yale: sù
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
- Palladius: су (su)
- Sinological IPA (key): /su⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: sou3
- Yale: sou
- Cantonese Pinyin: sou3
- Guangdong Romanization: sou3
- Sinological IPA (key): /sou̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Definitions
嫊
- Used in female personal names.
References
- “嫊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
Kanji
嫊
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