媝

媝 U+5A9D, 媝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A9D ← 媜 [U+5A9C] CJK Unified Ideographs 媞 → [U+5A9E]

Translingual

Han character

媝 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹火女 (HFV), four-corner 2940₄, composition ⿱秋女)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6521
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1066, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5A9D

Chinese

trad.		媝
simp. #		媝

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiū (qiu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciou
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiu¹
    • Yale: chyōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiou
    • Palladius: цю (cju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cau¹
    • Yale: chāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

媝

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “媝”, 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

媝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅう (shū); しゅ (shu)