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乸
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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
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): na2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: nǎ
- Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: nǎ
- Wade–Giles: na3
- Yale: nǎ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: naa
- Palladius: на (na)
- Sinological IPA (key): /nä²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: naa2
- Yale: ná
- Cantonese Pinyin: naa2
- Guangdong Romanization: na2
- Sinological IPA (key): /naː³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: na2
- Sinological IPA (key): /ⁿda⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: na2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ná
- Sinological IPA (key): /na⁵²/
- (Teochew)
Definitions
乸
- (Cantonese) female animal
- (Cantonese, often derogatory) mother
- (Cantonese, often derogatory) wife (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
- (Cantonese) sissy; feminine; unmanly
- (Cantonese, figuratively, of instruments, tools, or connectors) female
- (Cantonese) Suffix for certain animals, without any gendered meaning.
- (Cantonese, minced oath, vulgar) euphemistic form of 撚 (lan2): freaking
Synonyms
Compounds
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