媊

媊	U+5A8A, 媊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A8A

← 媉
[U+5A89]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媋 →
[U+5A8B]

Translingual

Han character

媊 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女廿月弓 (VTBN), four-corner 4842₁, composition ⿰女前)

Further reading

Kangxi Dictionary: page 266, character 25
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6486
Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 29
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1068, character 16
Unihan data for U+5A8A

Chinese

trad.		媊
simp. ^#		媊

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
媊	ʔslel, ʔslenʔ
煎	ʔslen, ʔslens
湔	ʔslen, ʔslens, ʔsleːn, zleːn
鬋	ʔslen, ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens
剪	*ʔslenʔ
翦	*ʔslenʔ
譾	*ʔslenʔ
揃	*ʔslenʔ
箭	*ʔslens
葥	*ʔslens
前	*zleːn
騚	*zleːn
歬	*zleːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔslel, *ʔslenʔ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 前 (OC *zleːn).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qián (qian²)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cin⁴ / zin²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qián
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cián
  - Wade–Giles: chʻien²
  - Yale: chyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyan
  - Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: cin⁴ / zin²
  - Yale: chìhn / jín
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsin⁴ / dzin²
  - Guangdong Romanization: qin⁴ / jin²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn²¹/, /t͡siːn³⁵/

Middle Chinese: tsje, tsjenX

Rime
Character	媊	媊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	支 (11)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	即移切	即淺切
Baxter	tsje	tsjenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇ/	/t͡siᴇn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛ/	/t͡siɛn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjɛ/	/t͡sjæn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siə̆/	/t͡sian^X/
Li Rong	/t͡sie/	/t͡siɛn^X/
Wang Li	/t͡sǐe/	/t͡sĭɛn^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sie̯/	/t͡si̯ɛn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī	jiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi¹	zin²

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔslel/, /*ʔslenʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媊	媊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10240	10246
Phonetic component	前	前
Rime group	歌	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	貲	翦
Old Chinese	/*ʔslel/	/*ʔslenʔ/

Definitions

媊

morning star (planet Venus as seen around dawn)

References

“媊”, 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

媊

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ぜん (zen)
Kan-on: せん (sen)
Kan’yō-on: し (shi)