嫫

嫫 U+5AEB, 嫫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AEB
← 嫪
[U+5AEA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嫬 →
[U+5AEC]

Translingual

Han character

嫫 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女廿日大 (VTAK), four-corner 44434, composition ⿰女莫)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 270, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6673
  • Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1071, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5AEB

Chinese
trad. 嫫
simp. # 嫫
alternative forms 𡠜

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 嫫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (莫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蟆 *mraː
鬕 *mraːɡs
饃 *maːl
模 *maː
摸 *maː, *maːɡ
嫫 *maː
謨 *maː
膜 *maː, *maːɡ
摹 *maː
暮 *maːɡs
慕 *maːɡs
募 *maːɡs
墓 *maːɡs
慔 *maːɡs
莫 *maːɡ
寞 *maːɡ
漠 *maːɡ
幕 *maːɡ
鏌 *maːɡ
瘼 *maːɡ
鄚 *maːɡ
瞙 *maːɡ
嗼 *maːɡ, *mraːɡ
塻 *maːɡ
貘 *mraːɡ
驀 *mraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maː) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 莫 (OC *maːɡ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 嫫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫胡切
Baxter mu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /muo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /muo/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mɔ/
Li
Rong		 /mo/
Wang
Li		 /mu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 mou4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 嫫
Reading # 1/1
No. 9243
Phonetic
component		 莫
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 模
Old
Chinese		 /*maː/

Definitions

嫫

  1. Used in 嫫母 (mómǔ, “Momu, the Yellow Emperor's ugly concubine”).
  2. nurse
  3. calm

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji
嫫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings
  • On (unclassified): ぼ (bo); も (mo)
  • Kun: しこめ (shikome)

Korean

Hanja

嫫 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo)

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