嫊

嫊 U+5ACA, 嫊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ACA ← 嫉 [U+5AC9] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫋 → [U+5ACB]

Translingual

Han character

嫊 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女手一火 (VQMF), four-corner 4549₃, composition ⿰女素)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6613
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5ACA

Chinese

trad.		嫊
simp. #		嫊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嫊
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 素 (OC *saːs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sù (su⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sù
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sù
    • Wade–Giles: su⁴
    • Yale: sù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
    • Palladius: су (su)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sou³
    • Yale: sou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³³/

Definitions

嫊

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “嫊”, 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

嫊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そ (so)