媣

媣	U+5AA3, 媣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AA3

← 媢
[U+5AA2]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媤 →
[U+5AA4]

Translingual

Han character

媣 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女水弓木 (VEND) or 難女水弓木 (XVEND), composition ⿰女染)

Further reading

Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6528
Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 21
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1069, character 2
Unihan data for U+5AA3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		媣

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 染 (OC *njomʔ, *njoms).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): rǎn (ran³)

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: rǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: rǎn
  - Wade–Giles: jan³
  - Yale: rǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: raan
  - Palladius: жань (žanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐän²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gam¹
  - Yale: gām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: gem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: kam

Rime
Character	媣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古三切
Baxter	kam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑm/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑm/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kam/
Li Rong	/kɑm/
Wang Li	/kɑm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gam¹

Definitions

媣

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References

Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 94