妐

妐 U+5990, 妐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5990 ← 妏 [U+598F] CJK Unified Ideographs 妑 → [U+5991]

Translingual

Han character

妐 (radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女金戈 (VCI), four-corner 4843₂, composition ⿰女公)

References

• KangXi: page 256, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6080
• Dae Jaweon: page 520, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1032, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5990

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		妐

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (公) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
慃	*qroːŋʔ
袞	*kluːnʔ
衮	*kluːnʔ
蔉	*kluːnʔ
滚	*kluːnʔ
忩	*sʰloːŋ
鬆	*sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰluːŋ, *skʰloŋ, *sqʰloŋ
凇	*sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
公	*kloːŋ
蚣	*kloːŋ, *kljoŋ
翁	*qloːŋ
螉	*qloːŋ
蓊	*qloːŋ, *qloːŋʔ
嗡	*qloːŋ
滃	*qloːŋʔ
暡	*qloːŋʔ
勜	*qloːŋʔ
塕	*qloːŋʔ
瓮	*qloːŋs
崧	*sqʰluŋ
菘	*sqʰluŋ
硹	*sqʰluŋ
淞	*sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
蜙	*sqʰloŋ
倯	*sqʰloŋ
松	*sɢloŋ
訟	*sɢloŋ, *sɢloŋs
頌	*sɢloŋs, *loŋ
忪	*kljoŋ
彸	*kljoŋ
衳	*kljoŋ
伀	*kljoŋ
妐	*kljoŋ
炂	*kljoŋ
鈆	*kljoŋ, *lon

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kljoŋ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 公 (OC *kloːŋ).

Etymology

Related to 公 (OC *C.qˁoŋ) (Baxter and Sagart, 2017). See there for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨoŋ/▼

Rime
Character	妐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職容切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuawŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕioŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*t-qoŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kljoŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	妐
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyowng ›
Old Chinese	/*t-qoŋ/
English	father-in-law
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	妐
Reading #	1/1
No.	4125
Phonetic component	公
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	鍾
Old Chinese	/*kljoŋ/

Definitions

妐

1. ^† husband's father
2. ^† husband's elder brother

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Japanese

Kanji

妐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しよう (syou, historical)}