嬒

嬒 U+5B12, 嬒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B12 ← 嬑 [U+5B11] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬓 → [U+5B13]

Translingual

Han character

嬒 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女人一日 (VOMA), composition ⿰女會)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 272, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6766
• Dae Jaweon: page 540, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1084, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5B12

Chinese

trad.		嬒
simp.		𫰢

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
譮	*qʰruːbs
會	*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
儈	*koːbs
膾	*koːbs
鱠	*koːbs
襘	*koːbs
禬	*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
檜	*koːbs, *koːd
旝	*koːbs
澮	*koːbs
鄶	*koːbs
廥	*koːbs
鬠	*koːbs, *ɡoːd
劊	*koːbs, *koːd
獪	*koːbs, *kroːbs
繪	*ɡoːbs
懀	*qoːbs, *qroːbs, *qroːbs
薈	*qoːbs
嬒	*qoːbs, *qoːd
瞺	*qoːbs
噲	*kʰroːbs
璯	*kʰroːbs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qoːbs, *qoːd) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 會 (OC *koːbs, *ɡoːbs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huì (hui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huèi
    • Wade–Giles: hui⁴
    • Yale: hwèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huey
    • Palladius: хуэй (xuej)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai³
    • Yale: wai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'wajH, 'wat

Rime
Character	嬒	嬒
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)	末 (64)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	烏外切	烏括切
Baxter	'wajH	'wat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuɑiH/	/ʔuɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷɑiH/	/ʔʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔuɑiH/	/ʔuɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔwajH/	/ʔwat̚/
Li Rong	/ʔuɑiH/	/ʔuɑt̚/
Wang Li	/uɑiH/	/uɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔuɑiH/	/ʔuɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wèi	wo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wui3	wut3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoːbs/, /*qoːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嬒	嬒
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5512	5522
Phonetic component	會	會
Rime group	蓋	月
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	懀	斡
Old Chinese	/*qoːbs/	/*qoːd/

Definitions

嬒

1. dark-skinned woman

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 95