媦

媦 U+5AA6, 媦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AA6 ← 媥 [U+5AA5] CJK Unified Ideographs 媧 → [U+5AA7]

Translingual

Han character

媦 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女田月 (VWB), four-corner 4642₇, composition ⿰女胃)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6532
• Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1065, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5AA6

Chinese

trad.		媦
simp. #		媦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (胃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
喟	*kʰruːds, *kʰruds
胃	*ɢuds
謂	*ɢuds
媦	*ɢuds
蝟	*ɢuds
渭	*ɢuds
煟	*ɢuds
緭	*ɢuds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢuds) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 胃 (OC *ɢuds).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wèi (wei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wèi
    • Wade–Giles: wei⁴
    • Yale: wèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wey
    • Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai⁶
    • Yale: waih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: hjw+jH

Rime
Character	媦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	于貴切
Baxter	hjw+jH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʉiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɨiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuəiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦujH/
Li Rong	/ɣiuəiH/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwəiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/we̯iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢuds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媦
Reading #	1/1
No.	12944
Phonetic component	胃
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	胃
Old Chinese	/*ɢuds/

Definitions

媦

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References

• “媦”, 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

媦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): い (i)
• Kun: いもうと (imōto)