# 媱

| 媱 | U+5AB1, &#23217; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB1 |
| ← 媰 [U+5AB0] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 媲 → [U+5AB2] |

## Translingual
### Han character

媱 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女月人山 (VBOU), four-corner 4747$_2$, composition ⿰女䍃)

### Further reading

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 39
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6568
* Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 23
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 16
* Unihan data for U+5AB1
* ZSbeike (知识贝壳)

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 搖 | *lews, *lew |
| 遙 | *lew |
| 瑤 | *lew |
| 徭 | *lew |
| 鰩 | *lew |
| 媱 | *lew |
| 傜 | *lew |
| 颻 | *lew |
| 窰 | *luː |
| 愮 | *lew |
| 鷂 | *lew, *lews |
| 榣 | *lew |
| 嗂 | *lew |
| 猺 | *lew |
| 謠 | *lew |
| 鎐 | *ʔsloːwɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lew) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 䍃.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yáo (yao$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yáo
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yáo
*** Wade–Giles: yao$^2$
*** Yale: yáu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
*** Palladius: яо (jao)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɑʊ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jiu$^4$
*** Yale: yìuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jiu$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yiu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiːu̯²¹/
* Middle Chinese: yew
Rime :
| Character | 媱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 宵 (91) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 餘昭切 |
| Baxter | yew |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jiᴇu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jiɛu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /jæu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jiaw/ |
| Li Rong | /iɛu/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭɛu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /i̯ɛu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yáo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jiu$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*law/
    (Zhengzhang): /*lew/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 媱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yáo |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ yew › |
| Old Chinese | /*law/ |
| English | merry |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 媱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14709 |
| Phonetic component | 謠 |
| Rime group | 宵 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 遙 |
| Old Chinese | /*lew/ |

### Definitions

媱
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### References

* “媱”, 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)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): よう (yō)
* Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi, 媱い)、たわむれる (tawamureru, 媱れる)

## Korean
### Hanja

媱 (eumhun 예쁠 요 (yeppeul yo))
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