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妺
妺
See also: 妹
Translingual
Han character
妺 (radical 38 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女木十 (VDJ), four-corner 45490, composition ⿰女末)
References
- KangXi: page 257, character 29
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6139
- Dae Jaweon: page 522, character 24
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1034, character 7
- Unihan data for U+59BA
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
妺 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (末) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 眛 | *maːds, *mɯːds |
| 沬 | *maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds |
| 佅 | *mraːds |
| 韎 | *mreːds, *maːd |
| 帓 | *mraːd |
| 粖 | *meːd, *maːd |
| 末 | *maːd |
| 昩 | *maːd |
| 秣 | *maːd |
| 靺 | *maːd |
| 眜 | *maːd |
| 抹 | *maːd |
| 妺 | *maːd |
| 怽 | *maːd |
| 沫 | *maːd |
| 袜 | *maːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːd) : semantic 女 (“female, woman”) + phonetic 末 (OC *maːd).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
- Wade-Giles: mo4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
- IPA (key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mut6
- Yale: muht
- Cantonese Pinyin: mut9
- IPA (key): /muːt̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 妺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 末 (64) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫撥切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/muɑt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mʷɑt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/muɑt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mwat̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/muɑt̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/muɑt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/muɑt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mò |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 妺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9231 |
| Phonetic component |
末 |
| Rime group |
月 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
末 |
| Old Chinese |
/*maːd/ |
Definitions
妺
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