媯

See also: 妫 and 嬀
媯 U+5AAF, 媯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AAF
← 媮
[U+5AAE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 媰 →
[U+5AB0]

Translingual

Han character

媯 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女戈大火 (VIKF), four-corner 42427, composition ⿰女為)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 267, character 36
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1068, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+5AAF

Chinese
trad. 媯/嬀
simp. 妫

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (爲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
譌 *ŋʷaːl
嬀 *kʷral
潙 *kʷral, *ɢʷal
蟡 *kʷralʔ, *qʷral
僞 *ŋʷrals
噅 *qʰʷral
撝 *qʰʷral
爲 *ɢʷal, *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals
鄬 *ɢʷal, *ɢʷalʔ
蔿 *ɢʷalʔ
儰 *ɢʷalʔ
寪 *ɢʷalʔ
蘤 *ɢʷalʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 為 (OC *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals)

Pronunciation

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 媯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjwe ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.qʷ(r)aj/
English (place and family name)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Definitions

媯

  1. a surname (no longer common since Han dynasty)

Compounds
  • 媯水／妫水
  • 媯汭／妫汭
  • 媯河／妫河
  • 息媯／息妫
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