嫗

See also: 妪

Translingual

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trad.		嫗
simp.		妪

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 區.

Han character

嫗 (radical 38 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女尸口口 (VSRR), four-corner 4141₆, composition ⿰女區)

1. old woman, hag

Descendants

• 妪

References

• KangXi: page 269, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6640
• Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1076, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5AD7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

嫗 (simplified 妪, Jyutping jyu2, Yale yu2)

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Japanese

Kanji

嫗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: おう (ō), う (u)
• Kun: おうな (ouna), あたためる (atatameru)

Etymology

Originally /omi1na/. Likely realized as [omina] (see Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai). The initial /o/ expressed "grown, large" and contrasted with /wo/ "young, youth" found in womina "woman".

Noun

嫗 (hiragana おみな, romaji omina)

1. a grown woman
2. an old woman

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Korean

Hanja

嫗 (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

嫗 (simplified 妪, Pinyin yǔ (yu3), yù (yu4), Wade-Giles yü³, yü⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

嫗 (*ʔjoX, ʔjoH)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嫗 (ẩu)

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