婞

婞	U+5A5E, 婞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A5E

← 婝
[U+5A5D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

婟 →
[U+5A5F]

Translingual

Han character

婞 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女土廿十 (VGTJ), four-corner 4444₁, composition ⿰女幸)

Further reading

Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6423
Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1055, character 7
Unihan data for U+5A5E

Chinese

trad.		婞
simp. ^#		婞

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
幸	*ɡreːŋʔ
倖	*ɡreːŋʔ
婞	*ɡeːŋʔ
涬	*ɡeːŋʔ
緈	*ɡeːŋʔ
悻	*ɡeːŋʔ
睪	neb, laːɡ, *kuː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡeːŋʔ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 幸 (OC *ɡreːŋʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xìng (xing⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hang⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): heng⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sìng
  - Wade–Giles: hsing⁴
  - Yale: syìng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinq
  - Palladius: син (sin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hang⁶
  - Yale: hahng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hang⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: heng⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ²²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: heng⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hēng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛŋ¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: heng⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: hengX

Rime
Character	婞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	胡頂切
Baxter	hengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦeŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦeŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛjŋ^X/
Li Rong	/ɣeŋ^X/
Wang Li	/ɣieŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣieŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jing⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡeːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婞
Reading #	1/1
No.	13883
Phonetic component	幸
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ɡeːŋʔ/

Definitions

婞

obstinate, stubborn

References

“婞”, 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–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “婞”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 266.

Japanese

Kanji

婞

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): けい (kei)、ぎょう (gyō)、こう (kō)
Kun: もとる (motoru)、まつすぐ (matsusugu)