嫍

嫍	U+5ACD, 嫍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ACD

← 嫌
[U+5ACC]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嫎 →
[U+5ACE]

Translingual

Han character

嫍 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女月竹難 (VBHX), four-corner 4247₇, composition ⿰女舀)

Further reading

Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6621
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 8
Unihan data for U+5ACD

Chinese

trad.		嫍
simp. ^#		嫍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 舀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
滔	*l̥ʰuː
韜	*l̥ʰuː
縚	*l̥ʰuː
謟	*l̥ʰuː
慆	*l̥ʰuː
幍	*l̥ʰuː
槄	l̥ʰuː, l̥ʰuːʔ
搯	*l̥ʰuː
瑫	*l̥ʰuː
稻	*l'uːʔ
蹈	*l'uːs
舀	lowʔ, lu, *lo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 舀 (OC *lowʔ, *lu, *lo).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tāo (tao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tao
  - Wade–Giles: tʻao¹
  - Yale: tāu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
  - Palladius: тао (tao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tou¹
  - Yale: tōu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

嫍

Used in female personal names.

References

“嫍”, 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

嫍

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}、とう (tō)^{←とう (tou, historical)}、よう (yō)^{←えう (eu, historical)}