嫍

嫍 U+5ACD, 嫍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ACD ← 嫌 [U+5ACC] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫎 → [U+5ACE]

Translingual

Han character

嫍 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女月竹難 (VBHX), four-corner 4247₇, composition ⿰女舀)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6621
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5ACD

Chinese

trad.		嫍
simp. #		嫍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 舀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
滔	*l̥ʰuː
韜	*l̥ʰuː
縚	*l̥ʰuː
謟	*l̥ʰuː
慆	*l̥ʰuː
幍	*l̥ʰuː
槄	*l̥ʰuː, *l̥ʰuːʔ
搯	*l̥ʰuː
瑫	*l̥ʰuː
稻	*l'uːʔ
蹈	*l'uːs
舀	*lowʔ, *lu, *lo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 舀 (OC *lowʔ, *lu, *lo).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāo (tao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tao
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao¹
    • Yale: tāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
    • Palladius: тао (tao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou¹
    • Yale: tōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

嫍

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “嫍”, 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

嫍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}; とう (tō)^{←とう (tou, historical)}; よう (yō)^{←えう (eu, historical)}