媃

媃 U+5A83, 媃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A83 ← 媂 [U+5A82] CJK Unified Ideographs 媄 → [U+5A84]

Translingual

Han character

媃 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女弓竹木 (VNHD), four-corner 4749₄, composition ⿰女柔)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 266, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6477
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5A83

Chinese

trad.		媃
simp. #		媃

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 柔 (OC *mlju).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): róu (rou²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: róu
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: róu
    • Wade–Giles: jou²
    • Yale: róu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rou
    • Palladius: жоу (žou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: jau⁴
    • Yale: yàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/

Definitions

媃

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References

• “媃”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

媃

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): じゅう (jū)、にゅ (nyu)

Vietnamese

媃: Hán Nôm readings: nho