媣

媣 U+5AA3, 媣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AA3 ← 媢 [U+5AA2] CJK Unified Ideographs 媤 → [U+5AA4]

Translingual

Han character

媣 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女水弓木 (VEND) or 難女水弓木 (XVEND), composition ⿰女染)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6528
• Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1069, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5AA3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		媣

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 染 (OC *njomʔ, *njoms).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rǎn (ran³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rǎn
    • Wade–Giles: jan³
    • Yale: rǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: raan
    • Palladius: жань (žanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam¹
    • Yale: gām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kam

Rime
Character	媣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古三切
Baxter	kam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑm/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑm/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kam/
Li Rong	/kɑm/
Wang Li	/kɑm/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɑm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gam1

Definitions

媣

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References

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