嫄

Translingual

Han character

嫄 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女一竹火 (VMHF), four-corner 4149₆, composition ⿰女原)

1. Qiang Yuan (姜嫄), consort to legendary Emperor Ku and the mother of Emperor Houji

Usage notes

This character is never used by itself as a single character.

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6606
• Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1071, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5AC4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

嫄 (Jyutping jyun4, Yale yun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

嫄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ごん (gon)
• Kan-on: げん (gen)^{←げん (gen, historical)←ぐゑん (gwen, ancient)}
• Kan’yō-on: がん (gan)^{←ぐわん (gwan, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

嫄 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

嫄 (Pinyin yuán (yuan2), Wade-Giles yüan²)

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