媩

媩 U+5AA9, 媩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AA9 ← 媨 [U+5AA8] CJK Unified Ideographs 媪 → [U+5AAA]

Translingual

Han character

媩 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女十口月 (VJRB), four-corner 4742₀, composition ⿰女胡)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 267, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6545
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1063, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5AA9

Chinese

trad.		媩
simp. #		媩

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 胡 (OC *ɡaː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hú (hu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hú
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hú
    • Wade–Giles: hu²
    • Yale: hú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwu
    • Palladius: ху (xu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu⁴
    • Yale: wùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː²¹/

Definitions

媩

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “媩”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

媩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こ (ko); ご (go)