媀

媀 U+5A80, 媀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A80 ← 婿 [U+5A7F] CJK Unified Ideographs 媁 → [U+5A81]

Translingual

Han character

媀 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女田中月 (VWLB), composition ⿰女禺)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 266, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6471
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1065, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5A80

Chinese

simp. and trad.		媀

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
齵	*ŋoː, *ŋo
偶	*ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
耦	*ŋoːʔ
藕	*ŋoːʔ
髃	*ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
蕅	*ŋoːʔ
愚	*ŋo
隅	*ŋo
禺	*ŋo, *ŋos
湡	*ŋo
堣	*ŋo
嵎	*ŋo
鰅	*ŋo, *ŋoŋ
鍝	*ŋo
遇	*ŋos
寓	*ŋos
庽	*ŋos
媀	*ŋos
喁	*ŋoŋ
顒	*ŋoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋos) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù, yú (yu⁴, yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ, ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (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/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Yale: yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁶
    • Yale: yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²²/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjuH

Rime
Character	媀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	牛具切
Baxter	ngjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋioH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuə̆H/
Li Rong	/ŋioH/
Wang Li	/ŋĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媀
Reading #	1/1
No.	15932
Phonetic component	禺
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遇
Old Chinese	/*ŋos/

Definitions

媀

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References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 94