嬯
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Translingual
Han character
嬯 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女土口土 (VGRG), four-corner 44414, composition ⿰女臺)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 273, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6827
- Dae Jaweon: page 541, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1085, character 14
- Unihan data for U+5B2F
Chinese
| trad. | 嬯 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 嬯 | |
| alternative forms | 儓 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 嬯 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
Characters in the same phonetic series (臺) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *dɯː): semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 臺 (OC *dɯː).
Etymology
Schuessler (2007) proposed an Austroasiatic origin by comparing 嬯 (OC tə̂) to Old Khmer tai (“female person, commoner woman”) (whence Khmer ម្តាយ (mtaay, “mother”)).
This is the same word as 儓 (tái, “the lowest kind of servant”) (Zuo)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: tái
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: tái
- Wade–Giles: tʻai2
- Yale: tái
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tair
- Palladius: тай (taj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaɪ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: toi4
- Yale: tòih
- Cantonese Pinyin: toi4
- Guangdong Romanization: toi4
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰɔːi̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: doj
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*dɯː/
Definitions
嬯
- (archaic, bronze inscriptions) servant or slave woman
- (historical dictionaries only) slow; dull, stupid
See also
- 懛 (dāi)
References
- Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 95
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C02387
Japanese
Kanji
嬯
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