媘

媘 U+5A98, 媘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A98 ← 媗 [U+5A97] CJK Unified Ideographs 媙 → [U+5A99]

Translingual

Han character

媘 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女心心日 (VPPA), composition ⿰女皆)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6510
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1064, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5A98

Chinese

simp. and trad.		媘

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 皆 (OC *kriːl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiē (jie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiē
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jie
    • Wade–Giles: chieh¹
    • Yale: jyē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jie
    • Palladius: цзе (cze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gaai¹
    • Yale: gāai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gai¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːi̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

媘

1. Used in female personal names.

References

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