嬚

嬚 U+5B1A, 嬚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B1A ← 嬙 [U+5B19] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬛 → [U+5B1B]

Translingual

Han character

嬚 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女戈廿金 (VITC), four-corner 4043₇, composition ⿰女廉)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 272, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6780
• Dae Jaweon: page 540, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1085, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5B1A

Chinese

trad.		嬚
simp. #		嬚

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
譧	*r'eːms
賺	*r'eːms
尲	*kreːm
鹻	*kreːmʔ
歉	*kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms
槏	*kʰreːmʔ
鰜	*ɡreːm, *keːm
稴	*ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm
豏	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms
甉	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm
廉	*ɡ·rem
鎌	*ɡ·rem
鬑	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
鐮	*ɡ·rem
簾	*ɡ·rem
薕	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
蠊	*ɡ·rem
嬚	*ɡ·remʔ
溓	*ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ
嵰	*kʰremʔ
隒	*ŋɡremʔ
熑	*ɡ·reːm
濂	*ɡ·reːm
燫	*ɡ·reːm
兼	*keːm, *keːms
縑	*keːm
鶼	*keːm
蒹	*keːm
搛	*keːm
謙	*kʰeːm
膁	*kʰeːmʔ
嗛	*kʰeːmʔ
慊	*kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb
傔	*kʰeːms
馦	*qʰeːm
嫌	*ɡeːm
鼸	*ɡeːmʔ
尷	*kreːm

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·remʔ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 廉 (OC *ɡ·rem).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liǎn (lian³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lim⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liǎn
    • Wade–Giles: lien³
    • Yale: lyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lean
    • Palladius: лянь (ljanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lim⁵
    • Yale: líhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lim⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lim⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːm¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: ljemX

Rime
Character	嬚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	良冉切
Baxter	ljemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liᴇmX/
Pan Wuyun	/liɛmX/
Shao Rongfen	/ljæmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/liamX/
Li Rong	/liɛmX/
Wang Li	/lĭɛmX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯ɛmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	liǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lim5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·remʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嬚
Reading #	1/1
No.	6049
Phonetic component	兼
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	斂
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·remʔ/

Definitions

嬚

1. pretty, beautiful
2. savoury

References

• “嬚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

嬚

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): れん (ren)