嬠

嬠 U+5B20, 嬠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B20 ← 嬟 [U+5B1F] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬡 → [U+5B21]

Translingual

Han character

嬠 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女口口木 (VRRD), four-corner 4649₄, composition ⿰女喿)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 272, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6795
• Dae Jaweon: page 540, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1083, character 22
• Unihan data for U+5B20

Chinese

trad.		嬠
simp. #		嬠

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cān (can¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caam²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cān
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: can
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan¹
    • Yale: tsān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsan
    • Palladius: цань (canʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caam²
    • Yale: cháam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cam²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm³⁵/

Definitions

嬠

1. greedy

References

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

Japanese

Kanji

嬠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): さん (san)
• Kun: むさぼる (musaboru)