媙

媙 U+5A99, 媙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A99 ← 媘 [U+5A98] CJK Unified Ideographs 媚 → [U+5A9A]

Translingual

Han character

媙 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女戈竹女 (VIHV), composition ⿰女威)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6511
• Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1064, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5A99

Chinese

trad.		媙
simp. #		媙

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wēi (wei¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wei
    • Wade–Giles: wei¹
    • Yale: wēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uei
    • Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai¹
    • Yale: wāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

媙

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References

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

Japanese

Kanji

媙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): い (i)
• Kun: うつくしい (utsukushī)