嫎

嫎 U+5ACE, 嫎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ACE ← 嫍 [U+5ACD] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫏 → [U+5ACF]

Translingual

Han character

嫎 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女卜月尸 (VYBS), composition ⿰女旁)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6624
• Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1073, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5ACE

Chinese

trad.		嫎
simp. #		嫎

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 旁 (OC *baːŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): páng (pang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: páng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: páng
    • Wade–Giles: pʻang²
    • Yale: páng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: parng
    • Palladius: пан (pan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pong⁴
    • Yale: pòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔːŋ²¹/

Definitions

嫎

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 94