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U+5990, 妐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5990

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 38, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女金戈 (VCI), four-corner 48432, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6080
  • Dae Jaweon: page 520, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1032, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5990

Chinese

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kljoŋ) : semantic (woman) + phonetic (OC *kloːŋ).

Etymology

Related to (OC *C.qˁoŋ) (Baxter and Sagart, 2017). See there for more.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter tsyowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cuawŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕioŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zung1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyowng ›
Old
Chinese
/*t-qoŋ/
English father-in-law

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 4125
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kljoŋ/

Definitions

  1. husband's father
  2. husband's elder brother

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: しゅ (shu)しゆ (syu, historical)
  • Kan-on: しょう (shō)しよう (syou, historical)