媼

See also: 媪

媼 U+5ABC, 媼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ABC ← 媻 [U+5ABB] CJK Unified Ideographs 媽 → [U+5ABD]

Translingual

Han character

媼 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女田人廿 (VWOT), four-corner 4641₇, composition ⿰女𥁕)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6588
• Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 1071, character 21
• Unihan data for U+5ABC

Chinese

trad.		媼
simp.		媪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ǎo (ao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ǎo
    • Wade–Giles: ao³
    • Yale: ǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ao
    • Palladius: ао (ao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ou²
    • Yale: óu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ou̯³⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

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• Middle Chinese: 'awX

Rime
Character	媼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏晧切
Baxter	'awX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔawX/
Li Rong	/ʔɑuX/
Wang Li	/ɑuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ou2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤuʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*quːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媼
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔawX ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁuʔ/
English	old woman
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媼
Reading #	1/1
No.	12967
Phonetic component	昷
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	襖
Old Chinese	/*quːʔ/

Definitions

媼

1. (literary) old woman
2. (literary) woman or mother god of earth

Compounds

• 媼相 / 媪相
• 媼神 / 媪神
• 嬭媼 / 奶媪
• 富媼 / 富媪
• 老媼 / 老媪 (lǎo'ǎo)
• 魔媼 / 魔媪

References

• “媼”, 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

媼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)
• Kan-on: おう (ō)
• Kun: おうな (ōna)

Korean

Hanja

媼 • (on, o, ol) (hangeul 온, 오, 올, revised on, o, ol, McCune–Reischauer on, o, ol, Yale on, o, ol)

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