媯

See also: 妫 and 嬀

媯	U+5AAF, 媯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AAF

← 媮
[U+5AAE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媰 →
[U+5AB0]

Translingual

Han character

媯 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女戈大火 (VIKF), four-corner 4242₇, composition ⿰女為)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 267, character 36
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1068, character 18
Unihan data for U+5AAF

Chinese

trad.		媯/嬀
simp.		妫

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
譌	*ŋʷaːl
嬀	*kʷral
潙	kʷral, ɢʷal
蟡	kʷralʔ, qʷral
僞	*ŋʷrals
噅	*qʰʷral
撝	*qʰʷral
爲	ɢʷal, ɢʷal, *ɢʷals
鄬	ɢʷal, ɢʷalʔ
蔿	*ɢʷalʔ
儰	*ɢʷalʔ
寪	*ɢʷalʔ
蘤	*ɢʷalʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 為 (OC *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guī (gui¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guī
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guei
  - Wade–Giles: kuei¹
  - Yale: gwēi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guei
  - Palladius: гуй (guj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gwai¹
  - Yale: gwāi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: guei¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯⁵⁵/

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʷ(r)aj/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guī
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwe ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʷ(r)aj/
English	(place and family name)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Definitions

媯

a surname (no longer common since Han dynasty)

Compounds

媯水 / 妫水
媯汭 / 妫汭
媯河 / 妫河
息媯 / 息妫