嫃

嫃 U+5AC3, 嫃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AC3 ← 嫂 [U+5AC2] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫄 → [U+5AC4]

Translingual

Han character

嫃 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女十月金 (VJBC), composition ⿰女真)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6604
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5AC3

Chinese

trad.		嫃
simp. #		嫃

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhēn (zhen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhen
    • Wade–Giles: chên¹
    • Yale: jēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jen
    • Palladius: чжэнь (čžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zan¹
    • Yale: jān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐn⁵⁵/

Definitions

嫃

1. Used in female personal names.

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhěn (zhen³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄣˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhěn
    • Wade–Giles: chên³
    • Yale: jěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeen
    • Palladius: чжэнь (čžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂən²¹⁴/

Definitions

嫃

1. careful, cautious

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 94