婭

See also: 娅

婭	U+5A6D, 婭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A6D

← 婬
[U+5A6C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

婮 →
[U+5A6E]

Translingual

Traditional	婭
Shinjitai (extended)	𫰫
Simplified	娅

Han character

婭 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女一中一 (VMLM), four-corner 4141₇, composition ⿰女亞)

mutual term of address used by sons-in-law
a brother-in-law

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6441
Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 21
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1055, character 8
Unihan data for U+5A6D

Chinese

trad.		婭
simp.		娅
alternative forms		亞／亚

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
椏	qaːʔ, qraː
錏	*qraː
鵶	*qraː
啞	qraːʔ, qraːɡs, qraːɡ, qraːɡ
瘂	*qraːʔ
亞	*qraːɡs
婭	*qraːɡs
俹	*qraːɡs
稏	*qraːɡs
惡	qaː, qaːɡs, *qaːɡ
噁	*qaːɡs
堊	*qaːɡ
蝁	*qaːɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yà, yā, yǎ (ya⁴, ya¹, ya³)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˋ, ㄧㄚ, ㄧㄚˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): aa³ / ngaa³
Eastern Min (BUC): á
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): a⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): à

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yà
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yà
  - Wade–Giles: ya⁴
  - Yale: yà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yah
  - Palladius: я (ja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yā
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ya
  - Wade–Giles: ya¹
  - Yale: yā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ia
  - Palladius: я (ja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yǎ
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yǎ
  - Wade–Giles: ya³
  - Yale: yǎ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yea
  - Palladius: я (ja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: aa³ / ngaa³
  - Yale: a / nga
  - Cantonese Pinyin: aa³ / ngaa³
  - Guangdong Romanization: a³ / nga³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /aː³³/, /ŋaː³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: á
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɑ²¹³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: a⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /a⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: à
  - Tâi-lô: à
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ax
  - IPA (Xiamen): /a²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /a⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /a²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /a¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /a²¹/

Middle Chinese: 'aeH

Rime
Character	婭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	衣嫁切
Baxter	'aeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠa^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚa^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔa^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔaɨ^H/
Li Rong	/ʔa^H/
Wang Li	/a^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔa^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	aa³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qraːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婭
Reading #	1/1
No.	14213
Phonetic component	亞
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	亞
Old Chinese	/*qraːɡs/

Definitions

婭

(literary) term of address used between husbands of sisters
used in 婭奼／娅姹 (yàchà)

Compounds

姻婭 / 姻娅
婭奼 / 娅姹
婭婿 / 娅婿
婭嬛 / 娅嬛
婭鬟 / 娅鬟
梅拉尼婭 / 梅拉尼娅 (Méilāníyà)
閭黨姻婭 / 闾党姻娅

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00658
“婭”, 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), “娅”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 274.

Japanese

Kanji

婭

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: あ (a)
Kan-on: あ (a)
Kun: あいむこ (aimuko)、こしもと (koshimoto)

Vietnamese

Han character

婭: Hán Nôm readings: ả

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