嬰

嬰 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月金女 (BCV), four-corner 6640₄, composition ⿱賏女)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 273, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6828
• Dae Jaweon: page 541, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1086, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5B30

Historical forms of the character 嬰
Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 賏 (“a string of shells”) + 女 (“woman”).

Probably related to 縈 (OC *qʷeŋ, “to entwine”) (Schuessler, 2007).

嬰

1. baby; infant (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. ^† necklace
3. ^† to put on; to wear
4. ^† to surround

   • 遂迷不復，自嬰屯蹇。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     遂迷不复，自婴屯蹇。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 《孔叢子》

     Suì mí bù fù, zì yīng túnjiǎn.

     Thus I was lost and could not return, surrounding myself in hardships.

5. ^† to entangle; to fetter
6. ^† to suffer
7. ^† to offend
8. ^† to exert
9. a surname

• “嬰”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𰋷)

1. young child, newborn child
2. used as western symbol ♯ sharp to mark the accidentals of musical notes
3. necklace
4. put around one's neck

• Go-on: よう (yō)
• Kan-on: えい (ei)
• Kun: あかご (akago, 嬰)、ふれる (fureru, 嬰れる)、めぐらす (megurasu, 嬰らす)、めぐる (meguru, 嬰る)、かける (kakeru)、かかる (kakaru)、みどりご (midorigo)

From Middle Chinese 嬰 (MC 'jieng).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

• (Tokyo) えー (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

嬰(えい) • (ei) 

1. newborn baby; infant
2. surround

嬰(えい) • (ei) 

1. (music) sharp (♯)

   嬰(えい)ヘ ― eihe ― F-sharp

• 変(へん) (hen)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

嬰

Wikisource

嬰 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng)

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嬰: Hán Việt readings: anh

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