妺

See also: 妹

妺	U+59BA, 妺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59BA

← 妹
[U+59B9]

CJK Unified Ideographs

妻 →
[U+59BB]

Translingual

Han character

妺 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女木十 (VDJ), four-corner 4549₀, composition ⿰女末)

wife of the last ruler of the Xia dynasty

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 257, character 29
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6139
Dae Jaweon: page 522, character 24
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1034, character 7
Unihan data for U+59BA

Chinese

trad.		妺
simp. ^#		妺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
眛	maːds, mɯːds
沬	maːds, hmɯːds, *mɯds
佅	*mraːds
韎	mreːds, maːd
帓	*mraːd
粖	meːd, maːd
末	*maːd
昩	*maːd
秣	*maːd
靺	*maːd
眜	*maːd
抹	*maːd
妺	*maːd
怽	*maːd
沫	*maːd
袜	*maːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *maːd): semantic 女 (“female, woman”) + phonetic 末 (OC *maːd).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mut⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mò
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mò
  - Wade–Giles: mo⁴
  - Yale: mwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
  - Palladius: мо (mo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mut⁶
  - Yale: muht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mut⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mud⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːt̚²/

Middle Chinese: mat

Rime
Character	妺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	末 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫撥切
Baxter	mat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwat̚/
Li Rong	/muɑt̚/
Wang Li	/muɑt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mut⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*maːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	妺
Reading #	1/1
No.	9231
Phonetic component	末
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	末
Old Chinese	/*maːd/

Definitions

妺

Used in female personal names.
妺喜 ― Mò Xǐ ― Mo Xi, a concubine of King Jie of Xia

Japanese

Kanji

妺

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ばつ (batsu)、まち (machi)、まつ (matsu)
Kun: あざな (azana)