嫛

嫛 U+5ADB, 嫛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ADB ← 嫚 [U+5ADA] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫜 → [U+5ADC]

Translingual

Han character

嫛 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸水女 (SEV) or 難尸水女 (XSEV), four-corner 7740₄, composition ⿱殹女)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6647
• Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1076, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5ADB

Chinese

trad.		嫛
simp. #		嫛

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鷖	*qiː
翳	*qiː, *qiːs
嫛	*qiː
黳	*qiː
繄	*qiː, *qiːs
医	*qiːs
嫕	*qiːs
蘙	*qiːs
瞖	*qiːs
殹	*qiːs
贀	*ɢʷis
醫	*qɯ
毉	*qɯ
蠮	*qiːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qiː) : phonetic 殹 (OC *qiːs) + semantic 女 (“woman”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yi
    • Wade–Giles: i¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'ej

Rime
Character	嫛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	烏奚切
Baxter	'ej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔei/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔei/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛj/
Li Rong	/ʔei/
Wang Li	/iei/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jai1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qiː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫛
Reading #	1/1
No.	15047
Phonetic component	医
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鷖
Old Chinese	/*qiː/

Definitions

嫛

1. compliant; easygoing
2. Used in 嫛婗 (“newborn child”).

Compounds

• 婉嫛
• 嫛婗

 

References

• “嫛”, 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

嫛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei); い (i)
• Kun: みどりご (midorigo); すなほ (sunaho)

Korean

Hanja

嫛 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye)

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