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Translingual
Han character
嫦 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月月 (VFBB), four-corner 49427, composition ⿰女常)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 270, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6663
- Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1077, character 2
- Unihan data for U+5AE6
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 當
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*taːŋ, *taːŋs
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| 襠
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*taːŋ
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| 鐺
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*taːŋ, *sʰraːŋ
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| 簹
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*taːŋ
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| 璫
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*taːŋ
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| 檔
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*taːŋ, *taːŋs
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| 儅
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*taːŋ, *taːŋs
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| 蟷
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*taːŋ
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| 擋
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*taːŋʔ, *taːŋs
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| 黨
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*taːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋʔ
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| 讜
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*taːŋʔ
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| 欓
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*taːŋʔ
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| 譡
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*taːŋs
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| 闣
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*taːŋs
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| 瓽
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*taːŋs
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| 鏜
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*tʰaːŋ
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| 闛
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*tʰaːŋ, *daːŋ
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| 鼞
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*tʰaːŋ
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| 曭
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*tʰaːŋʔ
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| 儻
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*tʰaːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋs
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| 戃
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*tʰaːŋʔ
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| 矘
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*tʰaːŋʔ
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| 爣
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*tʰaːŋʔ
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| 攩
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*hl'aːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋs
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| 淌
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*tʰaːŋʔ
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| 倘
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*tʰaːŋʔ
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| 躺
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*tʰaːŋʔ
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| 趟
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*tʰaːŋs, *rtaːŋ, *rtaːŋs
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| 堂
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*daːŋ
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| 坣
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*daːŋ
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| 棠
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*daːŋ
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| 糛
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*daːŋ
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| 螳
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*daːŋ
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| 隚
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*daːŋ
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| 橖
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*daːŋ
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| 掌
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*tjaŋʔ
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| 廠
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*tʰjaŋʔ, *tʰjaŋs
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| 敞
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*tʰjaŋʔ
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| 僘
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*tʰjaŋʔ
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| 氅
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*tʰjaŋʔ
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| 常
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*djaŋ
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| 嘗
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*djaŋ
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| 裳
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*djaŋ
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| 徜
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*djaŋ
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| 尚
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*djaŋ, *djaŋs
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| 甞
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*djaŋ
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| 鋿
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*djaŋ
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| 嫦
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*djaŋ
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| 償
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*djaŋ, *djaŋs
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| 賞
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*hjaŋʔ
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| 瞠
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*rtʰaːŋ
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| 撐
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*rtʰaːŋ
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| 樘
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*rtʰaːŋ
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| 橕
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*rtʰaːŋ
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| 牚
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*rtʰaːŋs
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| 埫
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*tʰoŋʔ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djaŋ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 常 (OC *djaŋ)
Pronunciation
| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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嫦
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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11159
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Phonetic
component
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尚
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Rime
group
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陽
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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常
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Old
Chinese
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/*djaŋ/
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| Notes
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常後起分化字
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Definitions
嫦
- Only used in 嫦娥 (Cháng'é).
References
- “嫦”, 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–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “嫦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 27.
- William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 631.
Japanese
Kanji
嫦
(Hyōgai kanji)
- Used as a proper name
Readings
Korean
Hanja
嫦 • (hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune–Reischauer hang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
嫦: Hán Nôm readings: thường
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