伢

Translingual

Han character

伢 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人一女竹 (OMVH), four-corner 2724₀, composition ⿰亻牙)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 96, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 120, character 6
• Unihan data for U+4F22

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		伢

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-ŋa-j (“small; inferior; offspring”); southern dialectal form of 兒 (MC nye, “child; son”). Also compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ŋa(i)k (“baby”), Proto-Bahnaric *ŋaː (“baby”), Khmer ង៉ា (ngaa, “infant; baby”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yá (ya²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaa⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yá
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yá
    • Wade–Giles: ya²
    • Yale: yá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ya
    • Palladius: я (ja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ngaa⁴
    • Yale: ngàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nga⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaː²¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 伢

1. (dialectal) child