媑

媑 U+5A91, 媑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A91 ← 媐 [U+5A90] CJK Unified Ideographs 媒 → [U+5A92]

Translingual

Han character

媑 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女竹十土 (VHJG), composition ⿰女重)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 266, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6497
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1066, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5A91

Chinese

trad.		媑
simp. #		媑

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 重 (OC *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhòng (zhong⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhòng
    • Wade–Giles: chung⁴
    • Yale: jùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jonq
    • Palladius: чжун (čžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zung⁶
    • Yale: juhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ²²/

Definitions

媑

1. Used in female personal names.

References

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