媪

See also: 媼

媪 U+5AAA, 媪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AAA ← 媩 [U+5AA9] CJK Unified Ideographs 媫 → [U+5AAB]

Translingual

Han character

媪 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女日月廿 (VABT), four-corner 4641₂, composition ⿰女昷)

Related characters

• 媼 (Orthodox traditional form)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 267, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6565
• Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1065, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5AAA

Chinese

Glyph origin

An unorthodox variant simplified from 媼 (𥁕 → 昷) which can be found in the historical Ming dynasty 《重訂直音篇》 dictionary.

Eventually adopted as an official form by the People's Republic of China in 1965 based on the Xin Zixing (新字形) standardized form of characters.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 媪 – see 媼 (“old woman; woman or mother god of earth”). (This character, 媪, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 媼.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Usage notes

This character is also the preferred form used in Hong Kong, where traditional Chinese is used.

Japanese

Kanji

媪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): おう (ō)
• Kun: おうな (ōna)

Korean

Hanja

媪 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

媪: Hán Nôm readings: ẩu

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References

• Nom Foundation