嬕

嬕 U+5B15, 嬕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B15 ← 嬔 [U+5B14] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬖 → [U+5B16]

Translingual

Han character

嬕 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女田中十 (VWLJ), composition ⿰女睪)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 272, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6769
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1083, character 23
• Unihan data for U+5B15

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嬕

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 睪 (OC *neb, *laːɡ, *kuː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìh
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴
    • Yale: shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • Palladius: ши (ši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/

Definitions

嬕

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 95