媊

媊

媊 U+5A8A, 媊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A8A ← 媉 [U+5A89] CJK Unified Ideographs 媋 → [U+5A8B]

Translingual

Han character

媊 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女廿月弓 (VTBN), four-corner 4842₁, composition ⿰女前)

Further reading

• KangXi: page 266, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6486
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1068, character 16
• Unihan data for U+5A8A

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Chinese

trad.		媊
simp. #		媊

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
媊	*ʔslel, *ʔslenʔ
煎	*ʔslen, *ʔslens
湔	*ʔslen, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn, *zleːn
鬋	*ʔslen, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens
剪	*ʔslenʔ
翦	*ʔslenʔ
譾	*ʔslenʔ
揃	*ʔslenʔ
箭	*ʔslens
葥	*ʔslens
前	*zleːn
騚	*zleːn
歬	*zleːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔslel, *ʔslenʔ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 前 (OC *zleːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qián (qian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin⁴, zin²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qián
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cián
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien²
    • Yale: chyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyan
    • Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰjɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin⁴, zin²
    • Yale: chìhn, jín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin⁴, dzin²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin⁴, jin²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn²¹/, /t͡siːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡siᴇ/, /t͡siᴇn^X/

Rime
Character	媊	媊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	支 (11)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	即移切	即淺切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇ/	/t͡siᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛ/	/t͡siɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjɛ/	/t͡sjænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siə̆/	/t͡sianX/
Li Rong	/t͡sie/	/t͡siɛnX/
Wang Li	/t͡sǐe/	/t͡sĭɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sie̯/	/t͡si̯ɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī	jiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1	zin2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslel/, /*ʔslenʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媊	媊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10240	10246
Phonetic component	前	前
Rime group	歌	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	貲	翦
Old Chinese	/*ʔslel/	/*ʔslenʔ/

Definitions

媊

1. morning star (planet Venus as seen around dawn)

References

• “媊”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

媊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kan’yō-on: し (shi)