媸

媸 U+5AB8, 媸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB8
← 媷
[U+5AB7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 媹 →
[U+5AB9]

Translingual

Han character

媸 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女山一戈 (VUMI), four-corner 47436, composition ⿰女蚩)

  1. an ugly woman

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6579
  • Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1074, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5AB8

Chinese
trad. 媸
simp. # 媸

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (之) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
之 *tjɯ
芝 *tjɯ
志 *tjɯs
痣 *tjɯs
娡 *tjɯs
誌 *tjɯs
蚩 *tʰjɯ
妛 *tʰjɯ
嗤 *tʰjɯ
媸 *tʰjɯ
旹 *djɯ
滍 *diʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 媸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 赤之切
Baxter tsyhi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰɨ/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiə/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 ci1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 媸
Reading # 1/1
No. 17197
Phonetic
component		 之
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 蚩
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰjɯ/

Definitions

媸

  1. (Classical) an ugly woman
  2. (Classical or Hakka) ugly

Compounds
  • 妍媸

Synonyms

(ugly):

Dialectal synonyms of 醜 (“ugly”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 醜, 媸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 醜陋
Mandarin Beijing 難看, 寒磣, 磣
Taiwan 難看, 醜
Jinan 難看, 醜
Xi'an 難看, 醜, 不心疼
Wuhan 醜, 不好看
Chengdu 難看, 醜
Yangzhou 難看, 醜
Hefei 難看, 醜, 相壞
Singapore 難看, 醜
Cantonese Guangzhou 難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
Hong Kong 難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
Dongguan 難睞
Yangjiang 惡看, 醜鬼
Gan Nanchang 不客氣, 難看
Hakka Meixian 難看, 難睞, 醜, 像鬼
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 媸, 醜
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 媸, 醜
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 媸, 醜
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 媸, 醜
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 媸, 醜
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 䆀
Jin Taiyuan 難看, 醜
Northern Min Jian'ou 驚人, 毛格式, 生得呆
Eastern Min Fuzhou 驚儂, 驚, 伓好看, 生得呆
Southern Min Xiamen 歹看, 㾀勢
Quanzhou 兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
Jinjiang 兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
Zhangzhou 䆀看, 㾀勢
Taipei 歹看, 䆀, 䆀材, 㾀, 䆀猴, 㾀勢
Kaohsiung 歹看
Singapore (Hokkien) 歹看, 䆀
Manila (Hokkien) 兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
Chaozhou 孬睇, 野樣, 䆀
Shantou 野樣
Jieyang 野樣
Singapore (Teochew) 歹睇
Wu Shanghai 難看, 怕
Shanghai (Jiading) 怕
Shanghai (Songjiang) 怕
Suzhou 難看, 怕
Kunshan 難看
Jiaxing 難看
Hangzhou 難看
Ningbo 難看
Wenzhou 難覷, 否好覷, 醜
Xiang Changsha 醜, 不好看, 不打彩
Shuangfeng 醜, 不好看

Antonyms
  • (classical Chinese) 妍 (yán)

Japanese

Kanji
媸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Vietnamese

Han character

媸: Hán Nôm readings: sầy, xuy, si

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References
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