唖

See also: 啞

唖 U+5516, 唖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5516 ← 唕 [U+5515] CJK Unified Ideographs 唗 → [U+5517]

Translingual

Stroke order

Traditional	啞
Shinjitai (extended)	唖
Simplified	哑

Han character

唖 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口一中一 (RMLM) or 難口一中一 (XRMLM), composition ⿰口亜)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 193, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3743
• Dae Jaweon: page 413, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 626, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5516

Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 啞 (亞 → 亜).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 唖 – see 啞 (“mute; dumb; speechless; without sound; etc.”). (This character is the former (1935–1936) ROC simplified, former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified, and variant form of 啞).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00604-001