媬

媬 U+5AAC, 媬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AAC ← 媫 [U+5AAB] CJK Unified Ideographs 媭 → [U+5AAD]

Translingual

Han character

媬 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女人口木 (VORD), four-corner 4649₄, composition ⿰女保)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 267, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 8 (in addendum), page 18, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5AAC

Chinese

trad.		媬
simp. #		媬

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 保 (OC *puːʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǎo (bao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǎo
    • Wade–Giles: pao³
    • Yale: bǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bao
    • Palladius: бао (bao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bou²
    • Yale: bóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯³⁵/

Definitions

媬

1. governess, nurse

References

• “媬”, 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

媬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ほ (ho)