媱

媱 U+5AB1, 媱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB1 ← 媰 [U+5AB0] CJK Unified Ideographs 媲 → [U+5AB2]

Translingual

Han character

媱 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女月人山 (VBOU), four-corner 4747₂, composition ⿰女䍃)

1. walk with one's shoulder bent
2. playing, having fun
3. fine, glorious, happy

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6568
• Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 16
• Unihan data for U+5AB1
• ZSbeike (知识贝壳)

Chinese

trad.		媱
simp. #		媱

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
搖	*lews, *lew
遙	*lew
瑤	*lew
徭	*lew
鰩	*lew
媱	*lew
傜	*lew
颻	*lew
窰	*luː
愮	*lew
鷂	*lew, *lews
榣	*lew
嗂	*lew
猺	*lew
謠	*lew
鎐	*ʔsloːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lew) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 䍃 ().

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yáo (yao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yáo
    • Wade–Giles: yao²
    • Yale: yáu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
    • Palladius: яо (jao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jiu⁴
    • Yale: yìuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yew

Rime
Character	媱
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘昭切
Baxter	yew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/jæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiaw/
Li Rong	/iɛu/
Wang Li	/jĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yáo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*law/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yáo
Middle Chinese	‹ yew ›
Old Chinese	/*law/
English	merry
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媱
Reading #	1/1
No.	14709
Phonetic component	謠
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	遙
Old Chinese	/*lew/

Definitions

媱

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References

• “媱”, 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

媱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えう (eu)
• Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi); たはむれる (tahamureru)

Korean

Hanja

媱 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo)

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