𡞕

𡞕 U+21795, 𡞕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-21795 ← 𡞔 [U+21794] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B 𡞖 → [U+21796]

Translingual

Han character

𡞕 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, composition ⿰女备)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 265, character 28
• Unihan data for U+21795

Middle Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• 𡢼

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-bəːʔ, either from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”) or an early loan from Old Chinese 婦 (OC *bɯʔ).

Noun

𡞕 (ꞗợ)

1. wife
2. married woman

Descendants

• Vietnamese: vợ

References

• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651), “ꞗợ”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide