媳

媳 U+5AB3, 媳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB3 ← 媲 [U+5AB2] CJK Unified Ideographs 媴 → [U+5AB4]

Translingual

Han character

媳 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女竹山心 (VHUP), four-corner 4643₀, composition ⿰女息)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6573
• Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5AB3

Chinese

trad.		媳
simp. #		媳
alternative forms		𡡁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (息) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
息	*slɯɡ
熄	*slɯɡ
媳	*slɯɡ
鄎	*slɯɡ
瘜	*slɯɡ
蒠	*slɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *slɯɡ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 息 (OC *slɯɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): xí (xi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˊ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): xi²

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): щи (xi, I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sit

  (Meixian, Guangdong): xid⁵

• Jin (Wiktionary): xieh⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siak / sek / sit

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sêg⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xí
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sí
    • Wade–Giles: hsi²
    • Yale: syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi³⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: xi²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi²¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: щи (xi, I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sit
    • Hakka Romanization System: xid^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /sit̚²/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: xid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /ɕit̚¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: xieh⁴
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /ɕiəʔ²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sih
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
    • Tâi-lô: sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sit
    • Tâi-lô: sit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sid
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sit̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sek̚²/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*slɯɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媳
Reading #	1/1
No.	13334
Phonetic component	息
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	息
Old Chinese	/*slɯɡ/
Notes	息晚起分化字

Definitions

媳

1. daughter-in-law

Compounds

• 兒媳 / 儿媳 (érxí)
• 兒媳婦兒 / 儿媳妇儿
• 大媳婦 / 大媳妇
• 姑媳
• 婆媳 (póxí)
• 娶媳婦 / 娶媳妇
• 媳婦 / 媳妇
• 媳婦兒 / 媳妇儿
• 小媳婦 / 小媳妇
• 弟媳 (dìxí)
• 弟媳婦 / 弟媳妇 (dìxífù)
• 新媳婦兒 / 新媳妇儿
• 毛腳媳婦 / 毛脚媳妇
• 童養媳 / 童养媳 (tóngyǎngxí)
• 老媳婦 / 老媳妇
• 重孫媳 / 重孙媳
• 長孫媳 / 长孙媳
• 養媳婦 / 养媳妇

References

• “媳”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “媳”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 253.

Japanese

Kanji

媳

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せき (seki)、しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: よめ (yome)

Korean

Hanja

媳 (eum 식 (sik))

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Vietnamese

Han character

媳: Hán Nôm readings: tức

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References

• Nom Foundation