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U+59E8, 姨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59E8

[U+59E7]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+59E9]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 38, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女大弓 (VKN), four-corner 45432, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 260, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6222
  • Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1043, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+59E8

Chinese

More information trad., simp. # ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 姨, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lil): semantic (woman) + phonetic (OC *lil).

Pronunciation


Note: yír - “maternal aunt”.

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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. maternal aunt (mother's sister)
       èr    mother's second eldest sister
  2. sister-in-law (wife's sister)
  3. aunt (a term of address for a woman around one's mother's age or slightly younger)
  4. (historical) father's concubine

Synonyms

  • (maternal aunt):

Compounds

References

  • ”, 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
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 163.
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Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: (i)
  • Kan-on: (i)
  • Kun: おば (oba, )

Etymology 1

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From Middle Chinese (MC yij).

Pronunciation

Noun

() (i) 

  1. a wife's sister; more specifically, a wife's younger sister
  2. a mother's sister, a maternal aunt
  3. a mistress (extramarital female lover); more specifically, a father's mistress

Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
妹姑いもしゅうとめ
[noun] a wife's sister
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(i) (hangeul , revised i, McCuneReischauer i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: di,

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