嬻

嬻 U+5B3B, 嬻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B3B ← 嬺 [U+5B3A] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬼 → [U+5B3C]

Translingual

Han character

嬻 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女土田金 (VGWC), composition ⿰女賣)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 273, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6860
• Dae Jaweon: page 541, character 37
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1088, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5B3B

Chinese

trad.		嬻
simp.		𪥿

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
竇	*l'oːɡs
續	*ljoɡs, *ljoɡ
覿	*l'juːɡ
黷	*l'oːɡ
讟	*l'oːɡ
殰	*l'oːɡ
讀	*l'oːɡ
櫝	*l'oːɡ
牘	*l'oːɡ
儥	*l'oːɡ
贕	*l'oːɡ
皾	*l'oːɡ
瓄	*l'oːɡ
瀆	*l'oːɡ
豄	*l'oːɡ
韇	*l'oːɡ
嬻	*l'oːɡ
犢	*l'oːɡ
匵	*l'oːɡ
藚	*ljoɡ
襩	*ɦljoɡ
贖	*ɦljoɡ
𧶠	*luɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'oːɡ) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 𧶠 (OC *luɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dú (du²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dú
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dú
    • Wade–Giles: tu²
    • Yale: dú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwu
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: duk⁶
    • Yale: duhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: duwk

Rime
Character	嬻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	東 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒谷切
Baxter	duwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/duk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/duk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwk̚/
Li Rong	/duk̚/
Wang Li	/duk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	duk6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'oːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嬻
Reading #	1/1
No.	16049
Phonetic component	𧶠
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	獨
Old Chinese	/*l'oːɡ/

Definitions

嬻

1. ^† to slight; to disrespect; to insult

Compounds

• 媟嬻／媟𪥿