嫗

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.3 Kanji 3.3.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] 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

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

嫗 (simplified 妪, Yale yu2)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] 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".

[edit] Noun

嫗 (hiragana おみな, romaji omina)

1. a grown woman
2. an old woman

[edit] Kanji

嫗

[edit] Readings

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

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

嫗 (qiò)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

嫗 (ẩu)