媜

媜 U+5A9C, 媜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A9C ← 媛 [U+5A9B] CJK Unified Ideographs 媝 → [U+5A9D]

Translingual

Han character

媜 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女卜月金 (VYBC), four-corner 5148₆, composition ⿰女貞)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6519
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1064, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5A9C

Chinese

trad.		媜
simp.		𰌂

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhēng (zheng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jheng
    • Wade–Giles: chêng¹
    • Yale: jēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeng
    • Palladius: чжэн (čžɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zing¹
    • Yale: jīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

媜

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “媜”, 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

媜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てい (tei); ちょう (chō)
• Kun: あざな (azana)