媗

媗 U+5A97, 媗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A97 ← 媖 [U+5A96] CJK Unified Ideographs 媘 → [U+5A98]

Translingual

Han character

媗 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女十一一 (VJMM), four-corner 4341₆, composition ⿰女宣)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6507
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1069, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5A97

Chinese

trad.		媗
simp. #		媗

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuān (xuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuan
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan¹
    • Yale: sywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuan
    • Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hyun¹
    • Yale: hyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hün¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːn⁵⁵/

Definitions

媗

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “媗”, 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

媗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken); かん (kan); せん (sen)