乸

乸	U+4E78, 乸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E78

← 乷
[U+4E77]

CJK Unified Ideographs

乹 →
[U+4E79]

Translingual

Han character

乸 (radical 5, 乙+7, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心木田卜戈 (PDWYI), four-corner 4771₅, composition ⿺也母)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 84, character 20

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2382, character 4

Unihan data for U+4E78

Chinese

simp. and trad.		乸

Etymology

Probably a dialectal form of 女 (OC *naʔ, “woman; female”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Alternatively, Li (1990) proposed that this may be a Tai substrate loan, related to Zhuang nax (“younger maternal uncle or aunt”), Thai น้า (náa) (which go back to Proto-Tai *naːᶜ (“mother's younger sibling”)).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nǎ (na³)
(Zhuyin): ㄋㄚˇ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou, Jyutping): naa²
(Taishan, Wiktionary): na²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: nǎ
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˇ
  - Wade–Giles: na³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: naa
  - IPA ^(key): /nä²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: naa²
  - Yale: ná
  - Cantonese Pinyin: naa²
  - Guangdong Romanization: na²
  - IPA ^(key): /näː³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: na²
  - IPA ^(key): /ⁿda⁵⁵/

Definitions

乸

(Cantonese) female animal
豬乸 / 猪乸 [Cantonese] ― zyu¹ naa² [Jyutping] ― sow
(Cantonese, often derogatory) mother
(Cantonese, often derogatory) wife (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
(Cantonese) sissy; feminine; unmanly
乸型 [Cantonese] ― naa² jing⁴ [Jyutping] ― sissy

Compounds

乸型
仔乸
婆乸
後底乸／后底乸
有爺生，冇乸教／有爷生，冇乸教

狗乸
老虎乸
蛤乸
蜞乸
蝨乸／虱乸

豬乸／猪乸
貓乸／猫乸
雞乸／鸡乸
馬乸／马乸
鴨乸／鸭乸