嫘

嫘

嫘 U+5AD8, 嫘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AD8 ← 嫗 [U+5AD7] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫙 → [U+5AD9]

Translingual

Han character

嫘 (radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女田女火 (VWVF), four-corner 4649₃, composition ⿰女累)

References

• KangXi: page 269, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6641
• Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1077, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5AD8

---

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嫘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (畾) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
摞	*roːl, *roːls
騾	*roːl
螺	*roːl
蔂	*roːl, *rul
虆	*roːl, *rul
瘰	*roːlʔ
礌	*ruːl, *ruːls
雷	*ruːl
擂	*ruːl, *ruːls
攂	*ruːl, *ruːls
礧	*ruːll, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
儡	*ruːl, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
瓃	*ruːl, *rul, *ruls
櫑	*ruːl, *ruːlʔ
鑘	*ruːl, *ruːlʔ
鐳	*ruːl
畾	*ruːl
轠	*ruːl, *rulʔ
罍	*ruːl
蕾	*ruːlʔ
癗	*ruːlʔ
磥	*ruːlʔ
累	*ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols
儽	*ruːls, *rul
樏	*rolʔ, *rul
鸓	*rul, *rulʔ
嫘	*rul
纍	*rul, *ruls
欙	*rul
纝	*rul
壘	*rulʔ
櫐	*rulʔ
蘽	*rulʔ
藟	*rulʔ
讄	*rulʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): léi (lei²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁴

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: léi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˊ
    • Wade–Giles: lei²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lei
    • Tongyong Pinyin: léi
    • IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: leoi⁴
    • Yale: lèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²¹/

---

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*rul/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫘
Reading #	1/1
No.	7740
Phonetic component	畾
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	㶟
Old Chinese	/*rul/
Notes	原從纍，此所注或體

Definitions

嫘

1. A surname​.

Compounds

嫘祖 (Léizǔ)

嫘縈／嫘萦 (léiyíng)

封嫘 (“a wife of Huangdi”)

---

Japanese

Kanji

嫘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings

• On (unclassified): るい (rui); らい (rai); れ (re)