媖

媖 U+5A96, 媖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A96 ← 媕 [U+5A95] CJK Unified Ideographs 媗 → [U+5A97]

Translingual

Han character

媖 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女廿中大 (VTLK), composition ⿰女英)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6506
• Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1056, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5A96

Chinese

trad.		媖
simp. #		媖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鴦	*qaːŋ, *qaŋ
佒	*qaːŋ
咉	*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
眏	*qaːŋ
姎	*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
坱	*qaːŋʔ
映	*qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs
泱	*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ
盎	*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
駚	*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ
軮	*qaːŋʔ
醠	*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
央	*qaŋ
秧	*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ
殃	*qaŋ
鞅	*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
鉠	*qaŋ, *qraŋ
雵	*qaŋ
胦	*qaŋ, *qroːŋ
柍	*qaŋʔ
詇	*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs
岟	*qaŋʔ
炴	*qaŋʔ
怏	*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
紻	*qaŋʔ
英	*qraŋ
瑛	*qraŋ
霙	*qraŋ
韺	*qraŋ
媖	*qraŋ
渶	*qraŋ
鶧	*qraŋ
楧	*qraŋ
暎	*qraŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīng (ying¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ying
    • Wade–Giles: ying¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ing
    • Palladius: ин (in)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jing¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jaeng

Rime
Character	媖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於驚切
Baxter	'jaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚiaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔiajŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔiɐŋ/
Wang Li	/ĭɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jing1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qraŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媖
Reading #	1/1
No.	14514
Phonetic component	央
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	霙
Old Chinese	/*qraŋ/

Definitions

媖

1. (literary, laudatory) woman

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 94

Japanese

Kanji

媖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei); ゆう (yū)