婖

婖 U+5A56, 婖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A56 ← 婕 [U+5A55] CJK Unified Ideographs 婗 → [U+5A57]

Translingual

Han character

婖 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女竹大心 (VHKP), four-corner 4243₃, composition ⿰女忝)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 264, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6413
• Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1059, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5A56

Chinese

trad.		婖
simp. #		婖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (天) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
添	*tʰiːm
忝	*l̥ʰiːmʔ, *l̥ʰiːms
悿	*tʰiːmʔ
舔	*l̥ʰiːmʔ
菾	*diːm
天	*qʰl'iːn
吞	*qʰl'iːn, *qʰl'ɯːn
祆	*qʰliːn
蚕	*zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 忝 (OC *l̥ʰiːmʔ, *l̥ʰiːms).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiān (tian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tim¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tian
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien¹
    • Yale: tyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tian
    • Palladius: тянь (tjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tim¹
    • Yale: tīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːm⁵⁵/

Definitions

婖

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “婖”, 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

婖

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てん (ten)