嫗
See also: 妪
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Translingual
Han character
嫗 (radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女尸口口 (VSRR), four-corner 41416, composition ⿰女區)
Descendants
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 | |
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simp. | 妪 |
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 嫗 |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
Small seal script |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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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).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔu (“egg; bird”).
Pronunciation 1 is a departing tone derivation from pronunciation 2, literally "the one who is breeding" (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation 1
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
Definitions
嫗
Compounds
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References
- “嫗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
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".
Alternative forms
Vietnamese
Han character
嫗 (ẩu)
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