嬞

嬞 U+5B1E, 嬞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B1E ← 嬝 [U+5B1D] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬟 → [U+5B1F]

Translingual

Han character

嬞 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女廿竹土 (VTHG), four-corner 4441₄, composition ⿰女董)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 272, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6792
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1083, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5B1E

Chinese

trad.		嬞
simp. #		嬞

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǒng (dong³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dung²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǒng
    • Wade–Giles: tung³
    • Yale: dǔng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: doong
    • Palladius: дун (dun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dung²
    • Yale: dúng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dung²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dung²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ³⁵/

Definitions

嬞

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “嬞”, 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

嬞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)