嫗

嫗

See also: 妪

嫗 U+5AD7, 嫗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AD7 ← 嫖 [U+5AD6] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫘 → [U+5AD8]

Translingual

Han character

嫗 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女尸口口 (VSRR), four-corner 4141₆, composition ⿰女區)

1. old woman, hag

Descendants

• 妪

References

• KangXi: page 269, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6640
• Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1076, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5AD7

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Chinese

trad.		嫗
simp.		妪

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
摳	*kʰoː, *kʰo
彄	*kʰoː
剾	*kʰoː, *qoː
謳	*qoː
歐	*qoː, *qoːʔ
區	*qoː, *kʰo
鷗	*qoː
甌	*qoː
漚	*qoː, *qoːs
瞘	*qoː
嘔	*qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙	*qoː
膒	*qoː
蓲	*qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧	*qoː, *qas
鏂	*qoː
毆	*qoːʔ
塸	*qoːʔ
貙	*kʰl'o
樞	*kʰjo
驅	*kʰo, *kʰos
軀	*kʰo
嶇	*kʰo
鰸	*kʰo
敺	*kʰo
傴	*qoʔ
嫗	*qos
饇	*qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qos) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔu (“egg; bird”).

Pronunciation 1 is a departing tone derivation from pronunciation 2, literally "the one who is breeding" (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu², jyu³
• Min Dong (BUC): hé̤ṳ
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): ù / ì

  (Teochew, Peng'im): u²

• Wu (Wiktionary): y (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu², jyu³
    • Yale: yú, yu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy², jy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu², yu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː³⁵/, /jyː³³/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hé̤ṳ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /høy²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ù
    • Tâi-lô: ù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ux
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /u²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ì
    • Tâi-lô: ì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ix
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /i²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: u²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: y (T2)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔɨo^H/

Rime
Character	嫗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	衣遇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔioH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuə̆H/
Li Rong	/ʔioH/
Wang Li	/ĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫗
Reading #	1/1
No.	10615
Phonetic component	區
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	嫗
Old Chinese	/*qos/

Definitions

嫗

1. ^† mother
2. ^† (old) woman

Compounds

乳嫗／乳妪 假嫗／假妪 大巫嫗／大巫妪 媒嫗／媒妪 媼嫗／媪妪 富嫗／富妪 少嫗／少妪

山嫗／山妪 巫嫗／巫妪 收生嫗／收生妪 村嫗／村妪 瞽嫗／瞽妪 翁嫗／翁妪

老嫗／老妪 (lǎoyù) 老嫗能解／老妪能解 道嫗／道妪 酒嫗／酒妪 青牛嫗／青牛妪 黃牛嫗／黄牛妪

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǔ, yù (yu³, yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˇ, ㄩˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǔ
    • Wade–Giles: yü³
    • Yale: yǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/

Definitions

嫗

1. ^† (of birds) to incubate; to sit on eggs
2. ^† to warm with one's body
3. ^† to raise; to nurture
4. ^† friendly; affable

Compounds

姁嫗／姁妪 嫗伏／妪伏 嫗姁／妪姁 嫗嫗／妪妪 嫗拊／妪拊

嫗掩／妪掩 嫗然／妪然 嫗煦／妪煦 嫗育／妪育 嫗詡／妪诩

嫗𡟥／妪𡟥 昫嫗／昫妪 煦嫗／煦妪 覆嫗／覆妪

References

• “嫗”, 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

Alternative forms

• 𪥽

Kanji

嫗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: う (u)
• Kan’yō-on: おう (ō)
• Kun: おうな (ōna, 嫗); あたためる (atatameru, 嫗める)

Etymology

Originally /omi1na/. Likely realized as [omina] (see Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai). The initial /o/ expressed "grown, large" and contrasted with /wo/ "young, youth" found in womina "woman". Contrasts with 翁 (okina).

Noun

嫗(おみな) • (omina) 

1. a grown woman
2. an old woman

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Korean

Hanja

嫗 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku)

1. old woman, hag

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Vietnamese

Han character

嫗: Hán Nôm readings: ẩu

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