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U+5A66, 婦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A66

[U+5A65]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5A67]
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婦 U+2F866, 婦
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F866
姘
[U+2F865]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 㛮
[U+2F867]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 38, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女尸一月 (VSMB), four-corner 47427, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𦸱

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6432
  • Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5A66

Chinese

More information trad., simp. ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 婦, Shang ...

Two possibilities:

  • Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bɯʔ): semantic (woman) + phonetic (OC *pjuʔ), as supported by the latest Old Chinese reconstructions; or
  • Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (woman) + (broom) – a woman with a broom.

Etymology

Compare Tibetan བག་མ (bag ma, bride) (Hill, 2019).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • fu5 - literary;
  • pou5 - colloquial (新婦).

  • Dialectal data
More information Variety, Location ...

More information Rime, Character ...
More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. married woman
       shào   young married woman
  2. woman
          women and children
  3. wife
          husband and wife

Compounds

Descendants

  • ? Proto-Vietic: *-bəːʔ
    • Viet-Muong:
      • Muong: bợ, vợ
      • Middle Vietnamese: 𡞕 (ꞗợ), 𡢼 (ꞗợ)

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