妁

妁 U+5981, 妁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5981 ← 妀 [U+5980] CJK Unified Ideographs 如 → [U+5982]

Translingual

Han character

妁 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女心戈 (VPI), four-corner 4742₀, composition ⿰女勺)

1. act as a go-between

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 255, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6058
• Dae Jaweon: page 519, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1026, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5981

Chinese

trad.		妁
simp. #		妁

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 妁
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
豹	*preːwɢs
趵	*preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
尥	*breːw, *b·reːwɢs
箹	*ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
杓	*plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
約	*ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
扚	*pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
釣	*pleːwɢs
瘹	*teːwɢs
芍	*ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
酌	*pljewɢ
灼	*pljewɢ
勺	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
彴	*pljewɢ
犳	*pljewɢ
妁	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
汋	*bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
仢	*bljewɢ
葯	*qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿	*lewɢ
肑	*preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
瓝	*breːwɢ
的	*pleːwɢ
靮	*pleːwɢ
馰	*pleːwɢ
玓	*pleːwɢ
魡	*pleːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuò (shuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoek³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuò
    • Wade–Giles: shuo⁴
    • Yale: shwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuoh
    • Palladius: шо (šo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zoek³
    • Yale: jeuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêg³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœːk̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyak, dzyak

Rime
Character	妁	妁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	之若切	市若切
Baxter	tsyak	dzyak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨɐk̚/	/d͡ʑɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɐk̚/	/d͡ʑiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɑk̚/	/d͡ʑiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨak̚/	/d͡ʑɨak̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiak̚/	/ʑiak̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭak̚/	/ʑĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ak̚/	/ʑi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo	shuó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoek3	soek6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pljewɢ/, /*bljewɢ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	妁	妁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11194	11198
Phonetic component	勺	勺
Rime group	藥	藥
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	灼	妁
Old Chinese	/*pljewɢ/	/*bljewɢ/

Definitions

妁

1. (literary) matchmaker of the bride's side
2. a surname

Compounds

• 媒妁 (méishuò)
• 媒妁之言
• 男媒女妁

 

Japanese

Kanji

妁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: なこうど (nakōdo, 妁)^{←なかうど (nakaudo, 妁, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

妁 • (jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

妁: Hán Nôm readings: chước

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References

• Nom Foundation