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: 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): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 為 (OC *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guī (gui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai¹

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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/

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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. a surname (no longer common since Han dynasty)

Compounds

• 媯水／妫水
• 媯汭／妫汭
• 媯河／妫河
• 息媯／息妫