嫿

See also: 婳

嫿 U+5AFF, 嫿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AFF ← 嫾 [U+5AFE] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬀 → [U+5B00]

Translingual

Han character

嫿 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女中土一 (VLGM), four-corner 4541₆, composition ⿰女畫)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 271, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6719
• Dae Jaweon: page 539, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1082, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5AFF

Chinese

trad.		嫿
simp.		婳

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
畫	*ɡʷreːɡs, *ɡʷreːɡ
澅	*ɡʷreːɡs
繣	*ɡʷreːɡs, *qʰʷreːɡ
劃	*qʰʷreːɡ, *ɡʷreːɡ
嫿	*ɡʷreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷreːɡ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 畫 (OC *ɡʷreːɡs, *ɡʷreːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huà (hua⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waak⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huà
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huà
    • Wade–Giles: hua⁴
    • Yale: hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huah
    • Palladius: хуа (xua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waak⁶
    • Yale: waahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wag⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: hweak

Rime
Character	嫿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	耕 (120)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡麥切
Baxter	hweak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠwɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/ɣuɛk̚/
Wang Li	/ɣwæk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wak6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷreːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫿
Reading #	1/1
No.	5336
Phonetic component	畫
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	獲
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷreːɡ/

Definitions

嫿

1. ^† (of a girl) tranquil and fine
2. ^† good

Compounds

• 姽嫿／姽婳 (guǐhuà)
• 徽嫿／徽婳

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00704

Japanese

Kanji

嫿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かく (kaku); ぎゃく (gyaku)
• Kun: しとやか (shitoyaka); みめよい (mimeyoi)