嫄

嫄 U+5AC4, 嫄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AC4 ← 嫃 [U+5AC3] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫅 → [U+5AC5]

Translingual

Han character

嫄 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女一竹火 (VMHF), four-corner 4149₆, composition ⿰女原)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6606
• Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1071, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5AC4

Chinese

trad.		嫄
simp. #		嫄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嫄
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
羱	*ŋʷaːn, *ŋʷan
豲	*ɦŋʷaːn
謜	*sŋ̊ʰʷan, *ŋʷan
縓	*sŋ̊ʰʷan, *sŋ̊ʰʷans
原	*ŋʷan
源	*ŋʷan
厵	*ŋʷan
嫄	*ŋʷan
騵	*ŋʷan
榞	*ŋʷan
獂	*ŋʷan
蒝	*ŋʷan
願	*ŋʷans
傆	*ŋʷans
愿	*ŋʷans

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuán (yuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuán
    • Wade–Giles: yüan²
    • Yale: ywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴
    • Yale: yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjwon

Rime
Character	嫄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	愚袁切
Baxter	ngjwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋʉɐn/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋʷiɐn/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuan/
Li Rong	/ŋiuɐn/
Wang Li	/ŋĭwɐn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯wɐn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋʷan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫄
Reading #	1/1
No.	16189
Phonetic component	原
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	元
Old Chinese	/*ŋʷan/

Definitions

嫄

1. Only used in 姜嫄 (Jiāngyuán, “Jiang Yuan”).

Japanese

Kanji

嫄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ごん (gon)
• Kan-on: げん (gen)^{←げん (gen, historical)←ぐゑん (gwen, ancient)}
• Kan’yō-on: がん (gan)^{←ぐわん (gwan, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

嫄 (eum 원 (won))

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