# 姁

| 姁 | U+59C1, &#22977; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59C1 |
| ← 姀 [U+59C0] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 姂 → [U+59C2] |

## Translingual
### Han character

姁 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女心口 (VPR), four-corner 4742$_0$, composition ⿰女句)
* peaceful and happy
* chatty like an old woman

#### Derived characters

* 𦰰

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 258, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6151
* Dae Jaweon: page 523, character 10
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1039, character 10
* Unihan data for U+59C1

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 姁 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script |
| | Old Chinese |
| 勾 | *koː, *koːs |
| 鉤 | *koː |
| 鴝 | *koː, *ɡo |
| 句 | *koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo |
| 夠 | *koː, *koːs, *kʰoː |
| 枸 | *koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ |
| 軥 | *koː, *koːs, *ɡo |
| 狗 | *koːʔ |
| 苟 | *koːʔ |
| 岣 | *koːʔ, *ko |
| 笱 | *koːʔ |
| 玽 | *koːʔ |
| 耇 | *koːʔ |
| 豿 | *koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ |
| 敂 | *koːʔ |
| 怐 | *koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos |
| 雊 | *koːs |
| 竘 | *kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ |
| 齁 | *qʰoː |
| 呴 | *qʰoːʔ, *qʰos |
| 蚼 | *qʰoːʔ, *ɡo |
| 豞 | *qʰoːs |
| 訽 | *qʰoːs, *ɡoːs |
| 佝 | *qʰoːs |
| 拘 | *ko |
| 駒 | *ko |
| 眗 | *ko |
| 跔 | *ko |
| 鮈 | *ko |
| 痀 | *ko |
| 蒟 | *koʔ, *kos |
| 絇 | *kos, *ɡo |
| 邭 | *kos |
| 劬 | *ɡo |
| 朐 | *ɡo |
| 鼩 | *ɡo |
| 斪 | *ɡo |
| 翑 | *ɡo |
| 葋 | *ɡo |
| 姁 | *ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos |
| 欨 | *qʰo, *qʰoʔ |
| 喣 | *qʰoʔ |
| 煦 | *qʰoʔ, *qʰos |
| 昫 | *qʰos |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xǔ, xū (xu$^3$, xu$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˇ, ㄒㄩ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi$^2$ / heoi$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syǔ
*** Wade–Giles: hsü$^3$
*** Yale: syǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheu
*** Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕy²¹⁴/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xū
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syu
*** Wade–Giles: hsü$^1$
*** Yale: syū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
*** Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕy⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: heoi$^2$ / heoi$^1$
*** Yale: héui / hēui
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hoey$^2$ / hoey$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hêu$^2$ / hêu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɵy̯³⁵/, /hɵy̯⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: xju, gju, xjuX, xjuH
Rime :
| Character | 姁 | 姁 | 姁 | 姁 |
| Reading # | 1/4 | 2/4 | 3/4 | 4/4 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) | 群 (30) | 曉 (32) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) | 虞 (24) | 虞 (24) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | III | III | III |
| Fanqie | 況于切 | 其俱切 | 況羽切 | 香句切 |
| Baxter | xju | gju | xjuX | xjuH |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hɨo/ | /ɡɨo/ | /hɨo$^X$/ | /hɨo$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /hio/ | /ɡio/ | /hio$^X$/ | /hio$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xio/ | /ɡio/ | /xio$^X$/ | /xio$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /huə̆/ | /guə̆/ | /huə̆$^X$/ | /huə̆$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /xio/ | /ɡio/ | /xio$^X$/ | /xio$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /xĭu/ | /ɡĭu/ | /xĭu$^X$/ | /xĭu$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /xi̯u/ | /gi̯u/ | /xi̯u$^X$/ | /xi̯u$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xū | qú | xǔ | xù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | heoi$^1$ | keoi$^4$ | heoi$^2$ | heoi$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡo/, /*qʰo/, /*qʰoʔ/, /*qʰos/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 姁 | 姁 | 姁 | 姁 |
| Reading # | 1/4 | 2/4 | 3/4 | 4/4 |
| No. | 7119 | 7121 | 7122 | 7129 |
| Phonetic component | 句 | 句 | 句 | 句 |
| Rime group | 侯 | 侯 | 侯 | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 衢 | 訏 | 詡 | 昫 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡo/ | /*qʰo/ | /*qʰoʔ/ | /*qʰos/ |

### Definitions

姁
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### Compounds

* 姁姁
* 姁媮／姁偷

### References

* “姁”, 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
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* beauty

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): く (ku)、ぐ (gu)
* Kun: はは (haha)、たのしむ (tanoshimu)、つま (tsuma)、うつくしい (utsukushī)

## Korean
### Hanja

姁 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune–Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)
* beautiful
* grandmother