嫵

嫵

See also: 妩

嫵 U+5AF5, 嫵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AF5 ← 嫴 [U+5AF4] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫶 → [U+5AF6]

Translingual

Han character

嫵 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女人廿火 (VOTF), four-corner 4843₁, composition ⿰女無)

1. charming, enchanting

References

• KangXi: page 270, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6701
• Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1081, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5AF5

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Chinese

trad.		嫵
simp.		妩

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
墲	*m̥ʰaː, *maː, *ma
橅	*maː
膴	*hmaː, *ma, *maʔ
幠	*hmaː
鄦	*hmaʔ
撫	*m̥ʰaʔ
無	*ma
瞴	*ma, *maʔ
蕪	*ma
璑	*ma
鷡	*ma
譕	*ma
憮	*ma, *maʔ
舞	*maʔ
廡	*maʔ
嫵	*maʔ
甒	*maʔ
潕	*maʔ
儛	*maʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǔ (wu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁵, mou⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): bú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǔ
    • Wade–Giles: wu³
    • Yale: wǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuu
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁵, mou⁴
    • Yale: móuh, mòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁵, mou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁵, mou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯¹³/, /mou̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú
    • Tâi-lô: bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: buo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /bu⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /mɨo^X/

Rime
Character	嫵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	文甫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/mioX/
Shao Rongfen	/mioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muə̆X/
Li Rong	/mioX/
Wang Li	/mĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*maʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫵
Reading #	1/1
No.	13129
Phonetic component	無
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	武
Old Chinese	/*maʔ/

Definitions

嫵

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Compounds

媚嫵／媚妩

嫵媚／妩媚 (wǔmèi)

References

• “嫵”, 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

嫵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. charming
2. enchanting

Readings

• Go-on: む (mu)
• Kan-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kun: こびる (kobiru, 嫵びる); みめよい (mimeyoi, 嫵い)

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Korean

Hanja

嫵 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune–Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

1. charming
2. (be) gentle
3. (be) pretty

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Vietnamese

Han character

嫵: Hán Nôm readings: vũ

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References

• Nom Foundation