媡

媡 U+5AA1, 媡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AA1 ← 媠 [U+5AA0] CJK Unified Ideographs 媢 → [U+5AA2]

Translingual

Han character

媡 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女木田火 (VDWF), composition ⿰女柬)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6526
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1064, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5AA1

Chinese

trad.		媡
simp. #		媡

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liàn (lian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lin⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liàn
    • Wade–Giles: lien⁴
    • Yale: lyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liann
    • Palladius: лянь (ljanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lin⁶
    • Yale: lihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːn²²/

Definitions

媡

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 94