婗

婗	U+5A57, 婗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A57

← 婖
[U+5A56]

CJK Unified Ideographs

婘 →
[U+5A58]

Translingual

Han character

婗 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女竹難山 (VHXU), four-corner 4741₇, composition ⿰女兒)

Further reading

Kangxi Dictionary: page 264, character 30
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6414
Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 21
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1059, character 12
Unihan data for U+5A57

Chinese

trad.		婗
simp. ^#		婗

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
掜	rŋeː, ŋeːʔ
誽	*rŋeː
倪	*ŋeː
蜺	ŋeː, ŋeː
霓	ŋeː, ŋeːs, *ŋeː
郳	*ŋeː
齯	*ŋeː
婗	*ŋeː
輗	*ŋeː
棿	*ŋeː
猊	*ŋeː
麑	*ŋeː
貎	*ŋeː
鯢	*ŋeː
兒	ŋeː, ŋje
觬	ŋeː, ŋeːʔ
堄	ŋeːʔ, ŋeːs
晲	*ŋeːʔ
睨	*ŋeːs
唲	*ŋje
隉	*ŋeːd
鶂	*ŋeːɡ
鬩	*ɦŋeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋeː): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ní (ni²)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ní
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ní
  - Wade–Giles: ni²
  - Yale: ní
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
  - Palladius: ни (ni)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ngai⁴
  - Yale: ngàih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: ngej

Rime
Character	婗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	五稽切
Baxter	ngej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋei/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋei/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɛj/
Li Rong	/ŋei/
Wang Li	/ŋiei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngai⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ŋeː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婗
Reading #	1/1
No.	2741
Phonetic component	兒
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	倪
Old Chinese	/*ŋeː/

Definitions

婗

infant, newborn
whimper of an infant

References

“婗”, 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–
Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 93

Japanese

Kanji

婗

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): げい (gei)
Kun: みどりご (midorigo)、あかごのなきごえ (akagononakigoe)