婞

婞 U+5A5E, 婞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A5E ← 婝 [U+5A5D] CJK Unified Ideographs 婟 → [U+5A5F]

Translingual

Han character

婞 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女土廿十 (VGTJ), four-corner 4444₁, composition ⿰女幸)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6423
• Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1055, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5A5E

Chinese

trad.		婞
simp. #		婞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (幸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
幸	*ɡreːŋʔ
倖	*ɡreːŋʔ
婞	*ɡeːŋʔ
涬	*ɡeːŋʔ
緈	*ɡeːŋʔ
悻	*ɡeːŋʔ
睪	*neb, *laːɡ, *kuː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡeːŋʔ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 幸 (OC *ɡreːŋʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìng (xing⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hang⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): heng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìng
    • Wade–Giles: hsing⁴
    • Yale: syìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinq
    • Palladius: син (sin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hang⁶
    • Yale: hahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hang⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: heng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: heng⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hengX

Rime
Character	婞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	胡頂切
Baxter	hengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦeŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦeŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛjŋX/
Li Rong	/ɣeŋX/
Wang Li	/ɣieŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣieŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jing6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡeːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婞
Reading #	1/1
No.	13883
Phonetic component	幸
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	婞
Old Chinese	/*ɡeːŋʔ/

Definitions

婞

1. obstinate, stubborn

References

• “婞”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “婞”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 266.

Japanese

Kanji

婞

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei)、ぎょう (gyō)、こう (kō)
• Kun: もとる (motoru)、まつすぐ (matsusugu)