嫿

See also: 婳

嫿	U+5AFF, 嫿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AFF

← 嫾
[U+5AFE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嬀 →
[U+5B00]

Translingual

Han character

嫿 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女中土一 (VLGM), four-corner 4541₆, composition ⿰女畫)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 271, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6719
Dae Jaweon: page 539, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1082, character 15
Unihan data for U+5AFF

Chinese

trad.		嫿
simp.		婳

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
畫	ɡʷreːɡs, ɡʷreːɡ
澅	*ɡʷreːɡs
繣	ɡʷreːɡs, qʰʷreːɡ
劃	qʰʷreːɡ, ɡʷreːɡ
嫿	*ɡʷreːɡ

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huà (hua⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waak⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huà
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huà
  - Wade–Giles: hua⁴
  - Yale: hwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huah
  - Palladius: хуа (xua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: waak⁶
  - Yale: waahk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waak⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wag⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːk̚²/

Middle Chinese: hweak

Rime
Character	嫿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	麥 (120)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡麥切
Baxter	hweak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠwɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/ɣuɛk̚/
Wang Li	/ɣwæk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣwæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wak⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷreːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫿
Reading #	1/1
No.	5336
Phonetic component	畫
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	獲
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷreːɡ/

Definitions

嫿

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of a girl) tranquil and fine
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) good

Compounds

姽嫿 / 姽婳 (guǐhuà)
徽嫿 / 徽婳

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00704

Japanese

Kanji

嫿

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): かく (kaku)、ぎゃく (gyaku)
Kun: しとやか (shitoyaka)、みめよい (mimeyoi)