媯

See also: 妫 and 嬀

媯 U+5AAF, 媯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AAF ← 媮 [U+5AAE] CJK Unified Ideographs 媰 → [U+5AB0]

Translingual

Han character

媯 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, Cangjie input 女戈大火 (VIKF), four-corner 4242₇, composition ⿰女為)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 267, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1068, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5AAF

Chinese

trad.		媯/嬀
simp.		妫

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
譌	*ŋʷaːl
嬀	*kʷral
潙	*kʷral, *ɢʷal
蟡	*kʷralʔ, *qʷral
僞	*ŋʷrals
噅	*qʰʷral
撝	*qʰʷral
爲	*ɢʷal, *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals
鄬	*ɢʷal, *ɢʷalʔ
蔿	*ɢʷalʔ
儰	*ɢʷalʔ
寪	*ɢʷalʔ
蘤	*ɢʷalʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 為 (OC *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Guī (Gui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kui / gūi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Guī
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Guei
    • Wade–Giles: Kuei¹
    • Yale: Gwēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Guei
    • Palladius: Гуй (Guj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwai¹
    • Yale: gwāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kui
    • Tâi-lô: kui
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kuy
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kui⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kui³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gūi
    • Tâi-lô: guī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gui
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɡui³³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʷ(r)aj/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guī
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwe ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʷ(r)aj/
English	(place and family name)
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.

Definitions

媯

1. (chiefly historical) Gui, a surname

Hypernyms

• 上古八大姓 (Shànggǔ Bā Dàxìng)

Compounds

• 媯水 / 妫水
• 媯汭 / 妫汭
• 媯河 / 妫河
• 息媯 / 息妫

Descendants

• → English: Gui, Kuei