孃

See also 嬢, and 娘

Translingual

shinjitai	嬢
simplified
traditional	孃

Etymology

Graphically 女 (“woman”) plus a complex right component, roughly 亠 + 吅 + (展 − 尸). Bottom right component cognate to 衣 (“cloth”).

Han character

孃 (radical 38 女+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 女卜口女 (VYRV), four-corner 4043₂, composition ⿰女襄)

1. troubled, oppressed
2. fat
3. mother

Descendants

• 嬢

References

• KangXi: page 274, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6891
• Dae Jaweon: page 542, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1090, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5B43

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Cantonese

Hanzi

孃 (Yale neung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

孃

Readings

• On: じょう (jō)
• Kun: むすめ (musume)

Compounds

• 愛孃 (あいじょう, aijō)

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Korean

Hanja

孃 (hangeul 양, revised yang, McCune-Reischauer yang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

孃 (pinyin náng (nang2), niáng (niang2), ráng (rang2), rǎng (rang3), Wade-Giles nang², niang², jang², jang³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

孃 (nương)