媳

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媳 U+5AB3, 媳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB3
← 媲
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 媴 →

Translingual

Han character

媳 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女竹山心 (VHUP), four-corner 46430, composition ⿰女息)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6573
  • Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5AB3

Chinese

trad. 媳
simp. # 媳
alternative forms 𡡁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (息) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
息 *slɯɡ
熄 *slɯɡ
媳 *slɯɡ
鄎 *slɯɡ
瘜 *slɯɡ
蒠 *slɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *slɯɡ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 息 (OC *slɯɡ).

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 媳
Reading # 1/1
No. 13334
Phonetic
component 		息
Rime
group 		職
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		息
Old
Chinese 		/*slɯɡ/
Notes 息晚起分化字

Definitions

媳

  1. daughter-in-law

Compounds

References

  • “媳”, 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), “媳”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 253.

Japanese

Kanji

媳

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): せき (seki)、しゃく (shaku)
  • Kun: よめ (yome)

Korean

Hanja

媳 (eum 식 (sik))

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Vietnamese

Han character

媳: Hán Nôm readings: tức

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