妪

Translingual

simpl.		妪
trad.		嫗

Etymology

Simplified from 嫗 (區 → 区). In current form, Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 区.

Han character

妪 (radical 38 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女尸大 (VSK), composition ⿰女区)

1. old woman, hag

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 257, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1030, character 2
• Unihan data for U+59AA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

妪 (traditional 嫗, Yale yu2)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

妪 (traditional 嫗, pinyin yù (yu4), Wade-Giles yü⁴)

Last modified on 10 October 2012, at 08:27