嫾

嫾 U+5AFE, 嫾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AFE ← 嫽 [U+5AFD] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫿 → [U+5AFF]

Translingual

Han character

嫾 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火木手 (VFDQ), composition ⿰女粦)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 271, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6718
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1082, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5AFE

Chinese

trad.		嫾
simp. #		嫾

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lián (lian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lián
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lián
    • Wade–Giles: lien²
    • Yale: lyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lian
    • Palladius: лянь (ljanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lin⁴
    • Yale: lìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːn²¹/

Definitions

嫾

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 95