媱

媱	U+5AB1, 媱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB1

← 媰
[U+5AB0]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媲 →
[U+5AB2]

Translingual

Han character

媱 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女月人山 (VBOU), four-corner 4747₂, composition ⿰女䍃)

Chinese

trad.		媱
simp. ^#		媱

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
搖	lews, lew
遙	*lew
瑤	*lew
徭	*lew
鰩	*lew
媱	*lew
傜	*lew
颻	*lew
窰	*luː
愮	*lew
鷂	lew, lews
榣	*lew
嗂	*lew
猺	*lew
謠	*lew
鎐	*ʔsloːwɢ

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yáo (yao²)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yáo
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yáo
  - Wade–Giles: yao²
  - Yale: yáu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
  - Palladius: яо (jao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jiu⁴
  - Yale: yìuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jiu⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yiu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: yew

Rime
Character	媱
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘昭切
Baxter	yew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/jæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiaw/
Li Rong	/iɛu/
Wang Li	/jĭɛu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yáo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*law/

(Zhengzhang): /*lew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yáo
Middle Chinese	‹ yew ›
Old Chinese	/*law/
English	merry
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.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媱
Reading #	1/1
No.	14709
Phonetic component	謠
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	遙
Old Chinese	/*lew/

Definitions

媱

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References

“媱”, 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

媱

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): よう (yō)^{←えう (eu, historical)}
Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi, 媱い)、たわむれる (tawamureru, 媱れる)

Korean

Hanja

媱 (eumhun 예쁠 요 (yeppeul yo))

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