嫟

嫟 U+5ADF, 嫟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ADF ← 嫞 [U+5ADE] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫠 → [U+5AE0]

Translingual

Han character

嫟 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女尸廿口 (VSTR), four-corner 4141₆, composition ⿰女匿)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6652
• Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5ADF

Chinese

trad.		嫟
simp. #		嫟

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 匿 (OC *nɯɡ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nì (ni⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nì
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nì
    • Wade–Giles: ni⁴
    • Yale: nì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nih
    • Palladius: ни (ni)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nik¹
    • Yale: nīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: nig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɪk̚⁵/

Definitions

嫟

1. Used in female personal names.
2. very intimate

Etymology 2

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 嫟 – see 暱 (“intimate, close, familiar; to approach”). (This character is an ancient form of 暱).

References

• “嫟”, 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

嫟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): じゆく (jiyuku); にき (niki)
• Kun: みだら (midara)