嫠

嫠

嫠 U+5AE0, 嫠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AE0 ← 嫟 [U+5ADF] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫡 → [U+5AE1]

Translingual

Han character

嫠 (radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十大一女 (JKMV), four-corner 5824₄, composition ⿸𠩺女)

References

• KangXi: page 269, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6655
• Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1075, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5AE0

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		嫠
variant forms		釐

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (釐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
犛	*rɯː, *rɯ, *maːw, *mraːw
釐	*rɯ
嫠	*rɯ
剺	*rɯ
孷	*rɯ
漦	*sɦrɯ
氂	*rɯ, *maːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rɯ) : phonetic 𠩺 + semantic 女.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lí (li²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): lî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: lí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
    • Wade–Giles: lih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
    • IPA ^(key): /li³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁴
    • Yale: lèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lei̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lî
    • Tâi-lô: lî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /li²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /li²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /li¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /li²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /li²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /lɨ/▼

Rime
Character	嫠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	里之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/lɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/lie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɨ/
Li Rong	/liə/
Wang Li	/lĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/li/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*rɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫠
Reading #	1/1
No.	7803
Phonetic component	釐
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	釐
Old Chinese	/*rɯ/

Definitions

嫠

1. widow

Compounds

嫠不恤緯／嫠不恤纬 嫠婦／嫠妇 (lífù) 嫠憂宗周／嫠忧宗周

嫠節／嫠节 嫠緯之憂／嫠纬之忧 孤嫠

恤嫠 惸嫠

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Japanese

Kanji

嫠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. widow

Readings

• On (unclassified): り (ri)
• Kun: やもめ (yamome)

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Korean

Hanja

嫠 (eum 리 (ri))

1. a widow

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Vietnamese

Han character

嫠: Hán Nôm readings: li

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References

• Nom Foundation