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Translingual
Han character
乸 (Kangxi radical 5, 乙+7, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心木田卜戈 (PDWYI), four-corner 47715, composition ⿺也母)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 84, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2382, character 4
- Unihan data for U+4E78
Chinese
Etymology
Probably a dialectal form of 女 (OC *naʔ, “woman; female”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Alternatively, Li (1990) proposed that this may be a Tai substrate loan, related to Zhuang nax (“younger maternal uncle or aunt”), Thai น้า (náa) (which go back to Proto-Tai *naːꟲ (“mother's younger sibling”)).
Pronunciation
Definitions
乸
- (Cantonese) female animal
- 豬乸／猪乸 [Cantonese] ― zyu1 naa2 ― sow
呢隻係公定係乸嚟㗎？ [Cantonese, trad.]
呢只系公定系乸嚟㗎？ [Cantonese, simp.]- nei1 zek3 hai6 gung1 ding6 hai6 naa2 lai4 gaa3?
- Is this male or female?
- (Cantonese, often derogatory) mother
- (Cantonese, often derogatory) wife (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
- (Cantonese) sissy; feminine; unmanly
- 乸型 [Cantonese] ― naa2 jing4 ― sissy
- (Cantonese, figuratively, of instruments, tools, or connectors) female
- (Cantonese, minced oath, vulgar) Euphemistic form of 撚 (lan2): freaking
- 黐乸線／黐乸线 [Cantonese] ― ci1 naa2 sin3 ― freaking crazy
Compounds