孍

孍 U+5B4D, 孍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B4D ← 孌 [U+5B4C] CJK Unified Ideographs 孎 → [U+5B4E]

Translingual

Han character

孍 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+20, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女口口大 (VRRK), four-corner 4644₈, composition ⿰女嚴)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 274, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6916
• Dae Jaweon: page 543, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1091, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5B4D

Chinese

trad.		孍
simp.		𱙔

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 嚴 (OC *ŋam).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎn (yan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎn
    • Wade–Giles: yen³
    • Yale: yǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yean
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jim⁵
    • Yale: yíhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm¹³/

Definitions

孍

1. beautiful appearance

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yán (yan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yán
    • Wade–Giles: yen²
    • Yale: yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jim⁴
    • Yale: yìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm²¹/

Definitions

孍

1. Used in female personal names.

References

• “孍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

孍

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): げん (gen)、ごん (gon)