嫗
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See also: 妪
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Translingual
Han character
嫗 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女尸口口 (VSRR), four-corner 41416, composition ⿰女區)
Descendants
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 23
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6640
- Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1076, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5AD7
Chinese
| trad. | 嫗 | |
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| simp. | 妪 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 嫗 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qos) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔu (“egg; bird”). Cognate with Burmese ဥ (u., “egg; tuber”).
Pronunciation 1 is a departing tone derivation from pronunciation 2, literally "the one who is breeding" (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu2 / jyu3
- Eastern Min (BUC): hé̤ṳ
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 5iu
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yù
- Wade–Giles: yü4
- Yale: yù
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
- Palladius: юй (juj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /y⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: jyu2 / jyu3
- Yale: yú / yu
- Cantonese Pinyin: jy2 / jy3
- Guangdong Romanization: yu2 / yu3
- Sinological IPA (key): /jyː³⁵/, /jyː³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: hé̤ṳ
- Sinological IPA (key): /høy²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ù
- Tâi-lô: ù
- Phofsit Daibuun: ux
- IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁴¹/
- IPA (Xiamen): /u²¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ì
- Tâi-lô: ì
- Phofsit Daibuun: ix
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /i²¹/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: u2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ú
- Sinological IPA (key): /u⁵²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: 'juH
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*qos/
Definitions
嫗
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄩˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yǔ
- Wade–Giles: yü3
- Yale: yǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeu
- Palladius: юй (juj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /y²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yù
- Wade–Giles: yü4
- Yale: yù
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
- Palladius: юй (juj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /y⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Definitions
嫗
- † (of birds) to incubate; to sit on eggs
- † to warm with one's body
- † to raise; to nurture
- † friendly; affable
Compounds
References
- “嫗”, 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
Alternative forms
Kanji
嫗
Readings
- Go-on: う (u)
- Kan-on: う (u)
- Kan’yō-on: おう (ō)
- Kun: おうな (ōna, 嫗)、あたためる (atatameru, 嫗める)、おみな (omina, 嫗)
Etymology
Originally /omi1na/. Likely realized as (see Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai). The initial /o/ expressed "grown, large" and contrasted with /wo/ "young, youth" found in womina "woman". Contrasts with 翁 (okina).
Noun
- a grown woman
- an old woman
Korean
Hanja
嫗 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku)
Vietnamese
Han character
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