矮

Translingual

Stroke order

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simp. and trad.		矮

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 矢 + phonetic 委

矢 might be an abbreviated form of 短 (short).

For mnemotechnical reasons, this character is sometimes decomposed as 矢 + 禾 + 女, things that are short in their category. This is not the character etymology.

References

• Lawrence J. Howell, Hikaru Morimoto, "矮" (in Japanese/English), An Etymological Dictionary of Chinese Character Interpretations. URL accessed on 2014-02-22.
• 2005, William McNaughton, Reading & Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition, 2nd Edition, Tuttle, ISBN 978-0804835091, page 10:

Han character

矮 (radical 111 矢+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人大竹木女 (OKHDV), four-corner 8244₄, composition ⿰矢委)

References

• KangXi: page 825, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23995
• Dae Jaweon: page 1238, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2585, character 7
• Unihan data for U+77EE

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		矮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ǎi (ai³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄞˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ai², ai³
• Min Nan (POJ): é
• Wu (WT Romanisation): a (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ǎi
    • Zhuyin: ㄞˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ai³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ae
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ai², ai³
    • Yale: ái, ai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ai², ai³
    • IPA ^(key): /ɐi̯³⁵/, /ɐi̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: é
    • Tâi-lô: é
    • IPA (Taipei): /e⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /e⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: a (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ᴀ²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (矮, reconstructed)
Character (矮), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 佳 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 烏蟹切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔɣɛX/	/ʔaiX/	/ʔɛX/	/ʔɯæX/	/ʔaɨjX/	/aiX/	/ʔæiX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (矮, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
矮					12885					委					歌					1					矮					/*qraːlʔ/

Adjective

矮

1. short (of stature)
2. low

Antonyms

• 高

References

• (Min Nan) "矮" (in Taiwanese/English), On-line Taiwanese/Mandarin Dictionary (台文／華文線頂辭典). URL accessed on 2011-01-29.

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Japanese

Kanji

矮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: わい (wai), あい (ai)
• Kun: ひくい (hikui)

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Korean

Hanja

矮 (wae) (hangeul 왜, McCune-Reischauer wae, Yale way)

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Vietnamese

Han character

矮 (ải)

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