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Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女尸口口 (VSRR), four-corner 41416, composition)

  1. old woman, hag

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 269, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6640
  • Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1076, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5AD7

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰoː, *kʰo
*kʰoː
*kʰoː, *qoː
*qoː
*qoː, *qoːʔ
*qoː, *kʰo
*qoː
*qoː
*qoː, *qoːs
*qoː
*qoː, *qoːʔ
*qoː
*qoː
*qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
*qoː, *qas
*qoː
*qoːʔ
*qoːʔ
*kʰl'o
*kʰjo
*kʰo, *kʰos
*kʰo
*kʰo
*kʰo
*kʰo
*qoʔ
*qos
*qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qos) : semantic  (woman) + phonetic  (OC *qoː, *kʰo).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔioH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔuə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ʔioH/
Wang
Li
/ĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10615
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qos/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 大巫嫗大巫妪
  • 嫗伏妪伏
  • 煦嫗煦妪
  • 老嫗老妪
  • 老嫗能解老妪能解

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Originally /omi1na/. Likely realized as [omina] (see Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai). The initial /o/ expressed "grown, large" and contrasted with /wo/ "young, youth" found in womina "woman".

Noun

(hiragana おみな, romaji omina)

  1. a grown woman
  2. an old woman

Korean

Hanja

(gu) (hangeul , revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ẩu)

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