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Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女木十 (VDJ), four-corner 45490, composition)

  1. wife of the last ruler of the Xia dynasty

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.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*maːds, *mɯːds
*maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
*mraːds
*mreːds, *maːd
*mraːd
*meːd, *maːd
*maːd
*maːd
*maːd
*maːd
*maːd
*maːd
*maːd
*maːd
*maːd
*maːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːd) : semantic  (female, woman) + phonetic  (OC *maːd).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (64)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9231
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maːd/

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings