婮

婮 U+5A6E, 婮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A6E ← 婭 [U+5A6D] CJK Unified Ideographs 婯 → [U+5A6F]

Translingual

Han character

婮 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女尸十口 (VSJR), composition ⿰女居)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6443
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5A6E

Chinese

trad.		婮
simp. #		婮

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 居 (OC *kɯ, *kas).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jū (ju¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyu
    • Wade–Giles: chü¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiu
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: geoi¹
    • Yale: gēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: goey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɵy̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

婮

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 93