乸

乸 U+4E78, 乸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E78 ← 乷 [U+4E77] CJK Unified Ideographs 乹 → [U+4E79]

Translingual

Han character

乸 (Kangxi radical 5, 乙+7, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心木田卜戈 (PDWYI), four-corner 4771₅, composition ⿺也母)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 84, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2382, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4E78

Chinese

trad.		乸
simp. #		乸

Etymology

Probably a dialectal form of 女 (OC *naʔ, “woman; female”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Alternatively, Li (1990) proposed that this may be a Tai substrate loan, related to Zhuang nax (“younger maternal uncle or aunt”), Thai น้า (náa) (which go back to Proto-Tai *naːꟲ (“mother's younger sibling”)).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nǎ (na³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄚˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): naa²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): na²

• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): na²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nǎ
    • Wade–Giles: na³
    • Yale: nǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: naa
    • Palladius: на (na)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nä²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: naa²
    • Yale: ná
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naa²
    • Guangdong Romanization: na²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naː³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: na²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ⁿda⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: na²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ná
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /na⁵²/

Definitions

乸

1. (Cantonese) female animal

   豬乸／猪乸 [Cantonese]  ―  zyu¹ naa² [Jyutping]  ―  sow

   呢隻係公定係乸嚟㗎？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   呢只系公定系乸嚟㗎？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei¹ zek³ hai⁶ gung¹ ding⁶ hai⁶ naa² lai⁴ gaa³? [Jyutping]

   Is this male or female?

2. (Cantonese, often derogatory) mother
3. (Cantonese, often derogatory) wife (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
4. (Cantonese) sissy; feminine; unmanly

   乸型 [Cantonese]  ―  naa² jing⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  sissy

5. (Cantonese, figuratively, of instruments, tools, or connectors) female
6. (Cantonese, minced oath, vulgar) Euphemistic form of 撚 (lan²): freaking

   黐乸線／黐乸线 [Cantonese]  ―  ci¹ naa² sin³ [Jyutping]  ―  freaking crazy

Compounds

• 乸型
• 乸聲乸氣／乸声乸气
• 仔乸
• 外母乸
• 契乸
• 婆乸
• 後底乸／后底乸
• 有爺生，冇乸教／有爷生，冇乸教
• 狗乸
• 老婆乸
• 老虎乸
• 薑乸／姜乸
• 蛤乸
• 蜞乸
• 蝨乸／虱乸
• 蝨乸／虱乸
• 豬乸／猪乸
• 貓乸／猫乸
• 鈕乸／钮乸
• 雞乸／鸡乸
• 馬乸／马乸
• 鴨乸／鸭乸