媸

媸 U+5AB8, 媸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB8 ← 媷 [U+5AB7] CJK Unified Ideographs 媹 → [U+5AB9]

Translingual

Han character

媸 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女山一戈 (VUMI), four-corner 4743₆, composition ⿰女蚩)

1. an ugly woman

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6579
• Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1074, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5AB8

Chinese

trad.		媸
simp. #		媸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
之	*tjɯ
芝	*tjɯ
志	*tjɯs
痣	*tjɯs
娡	*tjɯs
誌	*tjɯs
蚩	*tʰjɯ
妛	*tʰjɯ
嗤	*tʰjɯ
媸	*tʰjɯ
旹	*djɯ
滍	*diʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chī (chi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chī
    • Zhuyin: ㄔ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chih
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih¹
    • Yale: chr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chy
    • Palladius: чи (či)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ci¹
    • Yale: chī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhi
    • Tâi-lô: tshi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰi³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰi⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhi

Rime
Character	媸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	赤之切
Baxter	tsyhi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰɨ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiə/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媸
Reading #	1/1
No.	17197
Phonetic component	之
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蚩
Old Chinese	/*tʰjɯ/

Definitions

媸

1. (Classical) an ugly woman
2. (Classical or Hakka) ugly

Compounds

• 妍媸

 

Synonyms

(ugly):

Dialectal synonyms of 醜 (“ugly”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		醜, 媸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		醜陋
Mandarin	Beijing	難看, 寒磣, 磣
	Taiwan	難看, 醜
	Jinan	難看, 醜
	Xi'an	難看, 醜, 不心疼
	Wuhan	醜, 不好看
	Chengdu	難看, 醜
	Yangzhou	難看, 醜
	Hefei	難看, 醜, 相壞
	Singapore	難看, 醜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
	Hong Kong	難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
	Dongguan	難睞
	Yangjiang	惡看, 醜鬼
Gan	Nanchang	不客氣, 難看
Hakka	Meixian	難看, 難睞, 醜, 像鬼
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	媸, 醜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	媸, 醜
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	媸, 醜
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	媸, 醜
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	媸, 醜
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	䆀
Jin	Taiyuan	難看, 醜
Northern Min	Jian'ou	驚人, 毛格式, 生得呆
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	驚儂, 驚, 伓好看, 生得呆
Southern Min	Xiamen	歹看, 㾀勢
	Quanzhou	兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
	Jinjiang	兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
	Zhangzhou	䆀看, 㾀勢
	Taipei	歹看, 䆀, 䆀材, 㾀, 䆀猴, 㾀勢
	Kaohsiung	歹看
	Singapore (Hokkien)	歹看, 䆀
	Manila (Hokkien)	兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
	Chaozhou	孬睇, 野樣, 䆀
	Shantou	野樣
	Jieyang	野樣
	Singapore (Teochew)	歹睇
Wu	Shanghai	難看, 怕
	Shanghai (Jiading)	怕
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	怕
	Suzhou	難看, 怕
	Kunshan	難看
	Jiaxing	難看
	Hangzhou	難看
	Ningbo	難看
	Wenzhou	難覷, 否好覷, 醜
Xiang	Changsha	醜, 不好看, 不打彩
	Shuangfeng	醜, 不好看

Antonyms

• (classical Chinese) 妍 (yán)

Japanese

Kanji

媸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: あなどる (anadoru, 媸る); おろか (oroka, 媸か); みにくい (minikui, 媸い); みだる (midaru, 媸る)

Vietnamese

Han character

媸: Hán Nôm readings: sầy, xuy, si

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References

• Nom Foundation