媹

媹 U+5AB9, 媹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB9 ← 媸 [U+5AB8] CJK Unified Ideographs 媺 → [U+5ABA]

Translingual

Han character

媹 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女竹竹田 (VHHW), four-corner 4746₂, composition ⿰女留)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6580
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5AB9

Chinese

trad.		媹
simp. #		媹

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 留 (OC *m·ru, *m·rus).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liú (liu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liú
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lióu
    • Wade–Giles: liu²
    • Yale: lyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liou
    • Palladius: лю (lju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lau⁴
    • Yale: làuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

Definitions

媹

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “媹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

媹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): りう (riu); る (ru)