妸

妸 U+59B8, 妸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59B8 ← 妷 [U+59B7] CJK Unified Ideographs 妹 → [U+59B9]

Translingual

Han character

妸 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 女一弓口 (VMNR), composition ⿰女可)

Derived characters

• 𠶚

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 257, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6137
• Dae Jaweon: page 522, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1035, character 5
• Unihan data for U+59B8

Chinese

trad.		妸
simp. #		妸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
砢	*ɡ·raːlʔ
柯	*kaːl
菏	*kaːl, *ɡaːl
牁	*kaːl
滒	*kaːl
哥	*kaːl
歌	*kaːl
謌	*kaːl
鴚	*kaːl
哿	*kaːlʔ
舸	*kaːlʔ
笴	*kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ
軻	*kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
珂	*kʰaːl
可	*kʰaːlʔ
岢	*kʰaːlʔ
坷	*kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
蚵	*kʰaːls, *ɡaːl
呵	*qʰaːl, *qʰaːls
訶	*qʰaːl
抲	*qʰaːl
荷	*qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
何	*ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
河	*ɡaːl
苛	*ɡaːl
魺	*ɡaːl
袔	*ɡaːls
阿	*qaːl
妸	*qaːl, *qaːlʔ
疴	*qaːl, *kʰraːls
鈳	*qaːl
娿	*qaːl, *qaːlʔ
痾	*qaːl
跒	*kʰraːlʔ
閜	*qʰraːlʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ē, ě (e¹, e³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜ, ㄜˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): o² / o¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ē
    • Zhuyin: ㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: e
    • Wade–Giles: o¹
    • Yale: ē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: e
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ě
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ě
    • Wade–Giles: o³
    • Yale: ě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ee
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: o² / o¹
    • Yale: ó / ō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: o² / o¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: o² / o¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔː³⁵/, /ɔː⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

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• Middle Chinese: 'a, 'aX

Rime
Character	妸	妸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	烏何切	烏可切
Baxter	'a	'aX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑ/	/ʔɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑ/	/ʔɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑ/	/ʔɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔa/	/ʔaX/
Li Rong	/ʔɑ/	/ʔɑX/
Wang Li	/ɑ/	/ɑX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɑ/	/ʔɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ē	ě
Expected Cantonese Reflex	o1	o2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːl/, /*qaːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	妸	妸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7469	7474
Phonetic component	可	可
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	阿	𨵌
Old Chinese	/*qaːl/	/*qaːlʔ/

Definitions

妸

1. alternative form of 婀
2. Used in personal names.
3. a surname

Compounds

• 妸娜 (ēnuó)
• 媕妸 (ān'ē)

Korean

Hanja

妸 (eumhun 아름다울 아 (areumdaul a))

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Tày

Noun

妸 (a; à; á)

1. Nôm form of a (“paternal aunt”).

   買林妸啉𫢞

   Mải lùm a lùm dụ

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2. Nôm form of à (“paternal aunt”).
3. Nôm form of á (“younger sister”).

Pronoun

妸 (a; á)

1. Nôm form of a (“Denoting a woman presumably younger than one's parent.”).

   妸分花丙吏

   A făn hoa bưởng dại

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2. Nôm form of á (“Denoting a woman presumably younger than one's parent.”).

   各主亥叭麻對妸

   Các chúa hợi, khảu mà đuổi á

   O my lords, come in to greet her for the ceremony

Verb

妸 (á)

1. Nôm form of á (“Denoting the sound of cicadas in the forest.”).

References

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Nom glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 可 (khả).

Han character

妸: Hán Việt readings: a
妸: Nôm readings: gả, ả, gã, gá, gạ

1. chữ Nôm form of ả
   1. (Central Vietnam) elder sister
   2. (familiar or endearing in Central Vietnam, derogatory in other dialects) she/her
2. chữ Nôm form of gả (“to give (one's offspring) in marriage”)
3. chữ Nôm form of gã
   1. (somewhat derogatory) lad; bloke
   2. (derogatory) he; him; that guy

Zhuang

Particle

妸

1. Sawndip form of a (“particle used to express question”)