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U+5A66, 婦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A66

[U+5A65]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5A67]

婦 U+2F866, 婦
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F866
姘
[U+2F865]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 㛮
[U+2F867]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 38, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女尸一月 (VSMB), four-corner 47427, composition )

Derived characters

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Descendants

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6432
  • Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5A66

Chinese

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trad.
simp. *

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Two possibilities:

  • Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *bɯʔ) : semantic (woman) + phonetic (OC *pjuʔ), as supported by the latest Old Chinese reconstructions; or
  • Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (woman) + (broom) – a woman with a broom.

Etymology

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Compare Tibetan བག་མ (bag ma, bride) (Hill, 2019).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • fu5 - literary;
  • pou5 - colloquial (新婦).
Note:
  • hū - literary;
  • bṳ̀ - colloquial.
Note:
  • hô - literary;
  • bô - colloquial (新婦).
Note:
  • hū/hǔ - literary;
  • pū/pǔ - colloquial (新婦).
Note:
  • hu6 - literary;
  • bu6 - colloquial (新婦).

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /fu⁵¹/
Harbin /fu⁴⁴/
Tianjin /fu⁵³/
Jinan /fu²¹/
Qingdao /fu²¹³/
Zhengzhou /fu²⁴/
Xi'an /fu⁴⁴/
Xining /fv̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /fu¹³/
Lanzhou /fu¹³/
Ürümqi /fu²¹³/
Wuhan /fu³⁵/
Chengdu /fu¹³/
Guiyang /fu²¹³/
Kunming /fu²¹²/
Nanjing /fu⁴⁴/
Hefei /fu⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /fu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xu³⁵/
Hohhot /fu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /vu²³/
Suzhou /vu³¹/
Hangzhou /vu¹³/
Wenzhou /vøy³⁵/
Hui Shexian /fu²²/
/fu³⁵/
Tunxi /fu²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /fu⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɸu²¹/
Gan Nanchang /fu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fu⁵³/
Taoyuan /fu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fu²³/
Nanning /fu²⁴/
/pʰu²⁴/
Hong Kong /fu¹³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hu²²/
/pu²²/ 新~
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hou²⁴²/
/pou²⁴²/ 新~
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xu⁴⁴/
/py⁴²/
Shantou (Teochew) /hu³⁵/
/pu³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /fu³³/
/ʔbu³³/ 新~

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter bjuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/biuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/biəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/buwX/
Li
Rong
/biuX/
Wang
Li
/bĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fau6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə.bəʔ/ (or *tsə.-? see Min)
English woman, wife

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17550
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bɯʔ/

Definitions

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  1. married woman
      ―  shào  ―  young married woman
  2. woman
      ―    ―  women and children
  3. wife
      ―    ―  husband and wife

Compounds

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Descendants

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  • ? Proto-Vietic: *-bəːʔ
    • Viet-Muong:
      • Muong: bợ, vợ
      • Middle Vietnamese: 𡞕 (ꞗợ), 𡢼 (ꞗợ)

References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]

婦󠄁
+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
婦󠄃
+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. lady
  2. woman

Readings

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  • Go-on: (bu)
  • Kan-on: ふう ()
  • Kan’yō-on: (fu, Jōyō)
  • Kun: おんな (onna, )をんな (wonna, , historical)つま (tsuma, )よめ (yome, )

Compounds

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References

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  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC bjuwX). Recorded as Middle Korean 부〮 (pwú) (Yale: pwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 아내 (anae bu))

  1. hanja form? of (married woman; lady; wife)

Derived terms

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [3]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: phụ, vợ

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