嬘

嬘 U+5B18, 嬘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B18 ← 嬗 [U+5B17] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬙 → [U+5B19]

Translingual

Han character

嬘 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女卜廿人 (VYTO), composition ⿰女遂)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 272, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6772
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1084, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5B18

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嬘

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suì (sui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suèi
    • Wade–Giles: sui⁴
    • Yale: swèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suey
    • Palladius: суй (suj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶
    • Yale: seuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/

Definitions

嬘

1. Used in female personal names.

References

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