婹

婹 U+5A79, 婹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A79 ← 婸 [U+5A78] CJK Unified Ideographs 婺 → [U+5A7A]

Translingual

Han character

婹 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女一田女 (VMWV), composition ⿰女要)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6460
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1064, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5A79

Chinese

trad.		婹
simp. #		婹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (要) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
腰	*qew
要	*qew, *qews
葽	*qew, *qews, *qeːw, *qeːwʔ
喓	*qew
闄	*qewʔ
偠	*qeːwʔ
騕	*qeːwʔ
婹	*qeːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qeːwʔ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 要 (OC *qew, *qews).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎo (yao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎo
    • Wade–Giles: yao³
    • Yale: yǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeau
    • Palladius: яо (jao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jiu²
    • Yale: yíu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'ewX

Rime
Character	婹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	烏皎切
Baxter	'ewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔeuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔeuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔeuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛwX/
Li Rong	/ʔeuX/
Wang Li	/ieuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔieuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qeːwʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婹
Reading #	1/1
No.	14758
Phonetic component	要
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*qeːwʔ/
Notes	偠分化字

Definitions

婹

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Etymology 2

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 婹 – see 偠. (This character is an ancient form of 偠).

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 94