媴

媴

媴 U+5AB4, 媴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB4 ← 媳 [U+5AB3] CJK Unified Ideographs 媵 → [U+5AB5]

Translingual

Han character

媴 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女土口女 (VGRV), four-corner 4443₂, composition ⿰女袁)

Further reading

• KangXi: page 268, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6574
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5AB4

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Chinese

trad.		媴
simp. #		媴

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 袁 (OC *ɢʷan).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuán (yuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuán
    • Wade–Giles: yüan²
    • Yale: ywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴
    • Yale: yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/

Definitions

媴

1. Used in personal names.

References

• “媴”, 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

媴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en), おん (on)