嫂

嫂	U+5AC2, 嫂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AC2

← 嫁
[U+5AC1]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嫃 →
[U+5AC3]

Translingual

Han character

嫂 (radical 38 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女竹X水 (VHXE), four-corner 4744₇, composition ⿰女叟)

References

KangXi: page 268, character 34
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6603
Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 8
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1066, character 18
Unihan data for U+5AC2

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嫂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (叟) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
㮴	*suːw
艘	suːw, sɯːw
嫂	*suːwʔ
瞍	sɯːw, suːʔ
謏	slɯːwʔ, suːʔ, suːs, srɯwɢ
叜	*sluːʔ
叟	*suːʔ
傁	*suːʔ
廋	suːʔ, sru
醙	suʔ, sru
遚	*sʰrus
餿	*sru
搜	*sru
颼	*sru
溲	sru, sruʔ
鎪	*sru
獀	*sru
鄋	*sru
螋	sru, sro
騪	*sru
瘦	*srus

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sǎo (sao³)

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sou²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): só
Min Dong (BUC): sō̤
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): só / só͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): so² / sao²
Wu (Wiktionary): sau (T2)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: sǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄠˇ
  - Wade–Giles: sao³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sao
  - IPA ^(key): /sɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sou²
  - Yale: sóu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sou²
  - Guangdong Romanization: sou²
  - IPA ^(key): /sou̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: só
  - Hakka Romanization System: so`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: so³
  - IPA: /so³¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sō̤
  - IPA ^(key): /so³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só
  - Tâi-lô: só
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soir
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /so⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /so⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só͘
  - Tâi-lô: sóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sor
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: so² / sao²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: só / sáu
  - IPA ^(key): /so⁵²/, /sau⁵²/

Note:

so2 - vernacular;
sao2 - literary.

Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: sau (T2)
  - IPA ^(key): /sɔ³⁴/

Middle Chinese: /sɑu^X/▼

Rime
Character	嫂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇老切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɑu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/sɑu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/sɑu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/saw^X/
Li Rong	/sɑu^X/
Wang Li	/sɑu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/sɑu^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sǎo

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*suːwʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫂
Reading #	1/1
No.	12065
Phonetic component	叟
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	㛮
Old Chinese	/*suːwʔ/

Definitions

嫂

sister-in-law (elder brother's wife)
friend's wife

Compounds

丘嫂
兄嫂 (xiōngsǎo)
內嫂／内嫂
大嫂 (dàsǎo)

大嫂子
姑嫂 (gūsǎo)
姻嫂
嫂夫人

嫂嫂 (sǎosao)
嫂子 (sǎozi)
家嫂
舅嫂 (jiùsǎo)

Japanese

Kanji

嫂

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

elder brother's wife

Readings

On (unclassified): そう (sō)

Kun: あによめ (aniyome)

Korean

Hanja

嫂 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su)

sister-in-law, elder brother's wife

Vietnamese

Han character

嫂 (tẩu, dâu)

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