嬯

嬯 U+5B2F, 嬯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B2F ← 嬮 [U+5B2E] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬰 → [U+5B30]

Translingual

Han character

嬯 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女土口土 (VGRG), four-corner 4441₄, composition ⿰女臺)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 273, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6827
• Dae Jaweon: page 541, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1085, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5B2F

Chinese

trad.		嬯
simp. #		嬯
alternative forms		儓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嬯
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
懛	*tɯː
儓	*tʰɯːs, *dɯː
臺	*dɯː
擡	*dɯː
薹	*dɯː
嬯	*dɯː
檯	*dɯː
籉	*dɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *dɯː): semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 臺 (OC *dɯː).

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) proposed an Austroasiatic origin by comparing 嬯 (OC tə̂) to Old Khmer tai (“female person, commoner woman”) (whence Khmer ម្តាយ (mtaay, “mother”)).

This is the same word as 儓 (tái, “the lowest kind of servant”) (Zuo)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tái (tai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): toi⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tái
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tái
    • Wade–Giles: tʻai²
    • Yale: tái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tair
    • Palladius: тай (taj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: toi⁴
    • Yale: tòih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: toi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: toi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: doj

Rime
Character	嬯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒哀切
Baxter	doj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/dəi/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəj/
Li Rong	/dᴀi/
Wang Li	/dɒi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tái
Expected Cantonese Reflex	toi4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*dɯː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嬯
Reading #	1/1
No.	12309
Phonetic component	臺
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	臺
Old Chinese	/*dɯː/

Definitions

嬯

1. (archaic, bronze inscriptions) servant or slave woman
2. (historical dictionaries only) slow; dull, stupid

See also

• 懛 (dāi)

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 95
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C02387

Japanese

Kanji

嬯

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: だい (dai)
• Kan-on: たい (tai)
• Kun: にぶい (nibui, 嬯い)