嫦

嫦 U+5AE6, 嫦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AE6 ← 嫥 [U+5AE5] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫧 → [U+5AE7]

Translingual

Han character

嫦 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, Cangjie input 女火月月 (VFBB), four-corner 4942₇, composition ⿰女常)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 270, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6663
• Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1077, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5AE6

Chinese

trad.		嫦
simp. #		嫦

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
當	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
襠	*taːŋ
鐺	*taːŋ, *sʰraːŋ
簹	*taːŋ
璫	*taːŋ
檔	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
儅	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
蟷	*taːŋ
擋	*taːŋʔ, *taːŋs
黨	*taːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋʔ
讜	*taːŋʔ
欓	*taːŋʔ
譡	*taːŋs
闣	*taːŋs
瓽	*taːŋs
鏜	*tʰaːŋ
闛	*tʰaːŋ, *daːŋ
鼞	*tʰaːŋ
曭	*tʰaːŋʔ
儻	*tʰaːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋs
戃	*tʰaːŋʔ
矘	*tʰaːŋʔ
爣	*tʰaːŋʔ
攩	*hl'aːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋs
淌	*tʰaːŋʔ
倘	*tʰaːŋʔ
躺	*tʰaːŋʔ
趟	*tʰaːŋs, *rtaːŋ, *rtaːŋs
堂	*daːŋ
坣	*daːŋ
棠	*daːŋ
糛	*daːŋ
螳	*daːŋ
隚	*daːŋ
橖	*daːŋ
掌	*tjaŋʔ
廠	*tʰjaŋʔ, *tʰjaŋs
敞	*tʰjaŋʔ
僘	*tʰjaŋʔ
氅	*tʰjaŋʔ
常	*djaŋ
嘗	*djaŋ
裳	*djaŋ
徜	*djaŋ
尚	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
甞	*djaŋ
鋿	*djaŋ
嫦	*djaŋ
償	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
賞	*hjaŋʔ
瞠	*rtʰaːŋ
撐	*rtʰaːŋ
樘	*rtʰaːŋ
橕	*rtʰaːŋ
牚	*rtʰaːŋs
埫	*tʰoŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djaŋ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 常 (OC *djaŋ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cháng (chang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sòng

  (Hailu, HRS): shong

• Eastern Min (BUC): siòng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): syorng² / syoeng²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siông

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cháng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cháng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang²
    • Yale: cháng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charng
    • Palladius: чан (čan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: soeng⁴
    • Yale: sèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sòng
    • Hakka Romanization System: song^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: song²
    • Sinological IPA: /soŋ¹¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: shong
    • Sinological IPA: /ʃoŋ⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siòng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /suoŋ⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: syorng²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sió̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyɒŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: syoeng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøŋ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siông
    • Tâi-lô: siông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sioong
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔŋ¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siaŋ⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djaŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫦
Reading #	1/1
No.	11159
Phonetic component	尚
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	常
Old Chinese	/*djaŋ/
Notes	常後起分化字

Definitions

嫦

1. only used in 嫦娥 (Cháng'é)

References

• “嫦”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “嫦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 27.
• William Campbell (1913), A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 631.

Japanese

Kanji

嫦

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Used as a proper name

Readings

• Go-on: ごう (gō)、じょう (jō)^{←じやう (zyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)、しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Nanori: つき (tsuki)

Korean

Hanja

嫦 • (hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune–Reischauer hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嫦: Hán Nôm readings: thường

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