嫗

See also: 妪

嫗	U+5AD7, 嫗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AD7

← 嫖
[U+5AD6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嫘 →
[U+5AD8]

Translingual

Han character

嫗 (radical 38 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女尸口口 (VSRR), four-corner 4141₆, composition ⿰女區)

old woman, hag

Descendants

妪

References

KangXi: page 269, character 23

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6640

Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 13

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1076, character 4

Unihan data for U+5AD7

Chinese

trad.		嫗
simp.		妪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嫗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
摳	kʰoː, kʰo
彄	*kʰoː
剾	kʰoː, qoː
謳	*qoː
歐	qoː, qoːʔ
區	qoː, kʰo
鷗	*qoː
甌	*qoː
漚	qoː, qoːs
瞘	*qoː
嘔	qoː, qoːʔ
櫙	*qoː
膒	*qoː
蓲	qoː, kʰu, qo, qos
醧	qoː, qas
鏂	*qoː
毆	*qoːʔ
塸	*qoːʔ
貙	*kʰl'o
樞	*kʰjo
驅	kʰo, kʰos
軀	*kʰo
嶇	*kʰo
鰸	*kʰo
敺	*kʰo
傴	*qoʔ
嫗	*qos
饇	*qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qos) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu², jyu³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: yù
  - Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
  - Wade–Giles: yü⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
  - IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jyu², jyu³
  - Yale: yú, yu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jy², jy³
  - Guangdong Romanization: yu², yu³
  - IPA ^(key): /jyː³⁵/, /jyː³³/

Middle Chinese: /ʔɨo^H/▼

Rime
Character	嫗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	衣遇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨo^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔio^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔio^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuə̆^H/
Li Rong	/ʔio^H/
Wang Li	/ĭu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*qos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫗
Reading #	1/1
No.	10615
Phonetic component	區
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	嫗
Old Chinese	/*qos/

Definitions

嫗

(formal) old woman

Compounds

大巫嫗／大巫妪
嫗伏／妪伏

煦嫗／煦妪
老嫗／老妪 (lǎoyù)

老嫗能解／老妪能解

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

嫗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Goon: う (u)

Kan’on: う (u)

Kan’yōon: おう (ō)

Kun: おうな (ōna), あたためる (atatameru)

Etymology

Originally /omi1na/. Likely realized as [omina] (see Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai). The initial /o/ expressed "grown, large" and contrasted with /wo/ "young, youth" found in womina "woman".

Noun

嫗 (hiragana おみな, rōmaji omina)

a grown woman
an old woman

Korean

Hanja

嫗 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku)

old woman, hag

Vietnamese

Han character

嫗 (ẩu)

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