嫼

嫼 U+5AFC, 嫼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AFC ← 嫻 [U+5AFB] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫽 → [U+5AFD]

Translingual

Han character

嫼 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女田土火 (VWGF), composition ⿰女黑)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 271, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6712
• Dae Jaweon: page 539, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1081, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5AFC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		嫼
alternative forms		𡣫

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嚜	*mrɯɡs
嫼	*ʔmrɯːd
墨	*mlɯːɡ
默	*mlɯːɡ
纆	*mɯːɡ
黑	*hmlɯːɡ
潶	*hmlɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔmrɯːd) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aat³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mò
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mò
    • Wade–Giles: mo⁴
    • Yale: mwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
    • Palladius: мо (mo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: aat³
    • Yale: aat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aat⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: ad³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːt̚³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

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• Middle Chinese: 'eat

Rime
Character	嫼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	鎋 (75)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	烏黠切
Baxter	'eat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠɛt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚæt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəɨt̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɛt̚/
Wang Li	/æt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔat̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ya
Expected Cantonese Reflex	aat3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔmrɯːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫼
Reading #	1/1
No.	5105
Phonetic component	黑
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	軋
Old Chinese	/*ʔmrɯːd/

Definitions

嫼

1. to cause jealousy and anger

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 95