媌

媌 U+5A8C, 媌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A8C ← 媋 [U+5A8B] CJK Unified Ideographs 媍 → [U+5A8D]

Translingual

Han character

媌 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女廿田 (VTW), four-corner 4446₀, composition ⿰女苗)

1. fine, glorious, happy
2. prostitute

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 266, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6488
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1056, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5A8C

Chinese

trad.		媌
simp. #		媌
alternative forms		嫹 ancient

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
貓	*mreːw, *mrew
描	*mreːw, *mrew
媌	*mreːw, *mreːwʔ
緢	*mreːwʔ, *mreːws, *mrew
苗	*mrew
猫	*mrew
庿	*mrews

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miáo (miao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miáo
    • Wade–Giles: miao²
    • Yale: myáu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miau
    • Palladius: мяо (mjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maau⁴
    • Yale: màauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mao⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: maew, maewX

Rime
Character	媌	媌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	莫交切	莫飽切
Baxter	maew	maewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠau/	/mˠauX/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚau/	/mᵚauX/
Shao Rongfen	/mau/	/mauX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨw/	/maɨwX/
Li Rong	/mau/	/mauX/
Wang Li	/mau/	/mauX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mau/	/mauX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	máo	mǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maau4	maau5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mreːw/, /*mreːwʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媌	媌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9103	9105
Phonetic component	苗	苗
Rime group	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	茅	卯
Old Chinese	/*mreːw/	/*mreːwʔ/

Definitions

媌

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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bâ

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bâ
    • Tâi-lô: bâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: baa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ba²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ba²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ba¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ba²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba²³/

Definitions

媌

1. (Southern Min) prostitute

Synonyms

• 先生 (xiānshēng) (archaic)
• 大先生 (Wu, dated)
• 妓女 (jìnǚ)
• 娼妓 (chāngjì)
• 小先生 (⁵shiau-shi-san) (Wu, dated)
• 幺二 (¹iau-gni) (Wu, dated, inferior)
• 煙花女／烟花女 (yānhuānǚ)
• 神女 (shénnǚ) (euphemistic)
• 站街女 (zhànjiēnǚ) (euphemistic)

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C02222

Japanese

Kanji

媌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi)