媠

媠	U+5AA0, 媠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AA0

← 媟
[U+5A9F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媡 →
[U+5AA1]

Translingual

Han character

媠 (radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女大一月 (VKMB), composition ⿰女⿱左月)

References

KangXi: page 267, character 20
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6525
Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 19
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1064, character 10
Unihan data for U+5AA0

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 媠 – see 嫷. (This character, 媠, is a variant form of 嫷.)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 媠 – see 惰 (“lazy”). (This character, 媠, is a variant form of 惰.)

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		媠
alt. forms		美水秀

Jerry Norman considers this to be the same word as 水 (shuǐ, “water”) (Schuessler, 2007). But also compare Thai สวย (sǔai, “beautiful”) (ibid.).

Pronunciation

Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): súi

(Teochew, Peng'im): sui²

Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: súi
  - Tâi-lô: suí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: suie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sui⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sui⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sui²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: súi
  - IPA ^(key): /sui⁵²/

Definitions

媠

(Min Nan) good-looking; pretty; beautiful

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 漂亮 (“good-looking; beautiful”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		漂亮
Mandarin	Beijing	好看、漂亮、俊
	Taiwan	好看、漂亮、俊
	Tianjin	俊、漂亮、好看
	Jinan	好看、漂亮、俊
	Xi'an	好看、排場、心疼
	Wuhan	好看、漂亮、乖
	Yangzhou	好看、標緻
	Hefei	好看、漂亮、排場
Cantonese	Guangzhou	好睇、靚
	Hong Kong	好睇、靚
	Yangjiang	好看、好樣、靚、整齊
Gan	Nanchang	客氣、好看
Hakka	Meixian	好看、靚、善、精
Jin	Taiyuan	好看、惜人、客戲
Min Bei	Jian'ou	好覷、雅式、生得好
Min Dong	Fuzhou	俊、生得好、卓佳
Min Nan	Xiamen	媠、好看、緣投
Min Nan	Chaozhou	雅、好睇
Wu	Shanghai	漂亮、好看
	Suzhou	好看、標緻、漂亮
	Wenzhou	好眙、生好、骨切
Xiang	Changsha	好看、漂亮
Xiang	Shuangfeng	好看、漂亮

Antonyms

䆀 (bái)

Compounds

媠噹噹／媠当当
媠氣／媠气

媠色
媠茫茫

媠靡
愛媠／爱媠

Descendants

→ English: swee

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
(Min Nan) “Entry #8310”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
(Min Nan) “臺灣閩南語按呢寫 (Tâi-oân Bân-lâm-gí Án-ne Siá) #313”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

媠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: だ (da); な (na); ら (ra)

Kan’on: た (ta)

Kun: おこたる (okotaru, 媠る); みめよい (mimeyoi, 媠い)

Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: thõa/thoã

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References

Nom Foundation

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