嫗

See also: 妪

Translingual

Han character

嫗 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女尸口口 (VSRR), four-corner 4141₆, composition ⿰女區)

1. old woman, hag

Descendants

• 妪

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6640
• Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1076, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5AD7

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Chinese

trad.		嫗
simp.		妪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嫗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
摳	*kʰoː, *kʰo
彄	*kʰoː
剾	*kʰoː, *qoː
謳	*qoː
歐	*qoː, *qoːʔ
區	*qoː, *kʰo
鷗	*qoː
甌	*qoː
漚	*qoː, *qoːs
瞘	*qoː
嘔	*qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙	*qoː
膒	*qoː
蓲	*qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧	*qoː, *qas
鏂	*qoː
毆	*qoːʔ
塸	*qoːʔ
貙	*kʰl'o
樞	*kʰjo
驅	*kʰo, *kʰos
軀	*kʰo
嶇	*kʰo
鰸	*kʰo
敺	*kʰo
傴	*qoʔ
嫗	*qos
饇	*qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qos) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔu (“egg; bird”).

Pronunciation 1 is a departing tone derivation from pronunciation 2, literally "the one who is breeding" (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 嫗

1. ^† mother
2. ^† (old) woman

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǔ, yù (yu³, yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˇ, ㄩˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǔ
    • Wade–Giles: yü³
    • Yale: yǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 嫗

1. ^† (of birds) to incubate; to sit on eggs
2. ^† to warm with one's body
3. ^† to raise; to nurture
4. ^† friendly; affable

References

• “嫗”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

嫗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: う (u)
• Kan’yō-on: おう (ō)
• Kun: おうな (ōna, 嫗); あたためる (atatameru, 嫗める)

Etymology

Originally /omi1na/. Likely realized as [omina] (see Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai). The initial /o/ expressed "grown, large" and contrasted with /wo/ "young, youth" found in womina "woman".

Alternative forms

• 𪥽

Noun

嫗(おみな) • (omina) 

1. a grown woman
2. an old woman

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Korean

Hanja

嫗 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku)

1. old woman, hag

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 嫗 (ẩu)

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