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嫂

嫂

Translingual

Han character

嫂 (radical 38 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女竹X水 (VHXE), four-corner 47447, composition ⿰女叟)

  1. sister-in-law, elder brother's wife

References

  • KangXi: page 268, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6603
  • Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1066, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+5AC2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 嫂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (叟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
㮴 *suːw
艘 *suːw, *sɯːw
嫂 *suːwʔ
瞍 *sɯːw, *suːʔ
謏 *slɯːwʔ, *suːʔ, *suːs, *srɯwɢ
叜 *sluːʔ
叟 *suːʔ
傁 *suːʔ
廋 *suːʔ, *sru
醙 *suʔ, *sru
遚 *sʰrus
餿 *sru
搜 *sru
颼 *sru
溲 *sru, *sruʔ
鎪 *sru
獀 *sru
鄋 *sru
螋 *sru, *sro
騪 *sru
瘦 *srus

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 嫂
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇老切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sawX/
Li
Rong		 /sɑuX/
Wang
Li		 /sɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sǎo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 嫂
Reading # 1/1
No. 12065
Phonetic
component		 叟
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 㛮
Old
Chinese		 /*suːwʔ/

Definitions

嫂

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Compounds

  • 丘嫂
  • 兄嫂 (xiōngsǎo)
  • 內嫂／内嫂
  • 大嫂 (dàsǎo)
  • 大嫂子
  • 姑嫂
  • 姻嫂
  • 嫂夫人

Japanese

Kanji

嫂

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

嫂 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嫂 (tẩu, dâu)

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