# 媳

| 媳 | U+5AB3, &#23219; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB3 |
| ← 媲 [U+5AB2] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 媴 → [U+5AB4] |

## Translingual
### Han character

媳 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女竹山心 (VHUP), four-corner 4643$_0$, composition ⿰女息)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6573
* Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 28
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 3
* Unihan data for U+5AB3

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 息 | *slɯɡ |
| 熄 | *slɯɡ |
| 媳 | *slɯɡ |
| 鄎 | *slɯɡ |
| 瘜 | *slɯɡ |
| 蒠 | *slɯɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *slɯɡ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 息 (OC *slɯɡ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): xí (xi$^2$)
       (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˊ
    (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): xi$^2$
    (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): щи (xi, I)
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sik$^1$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): sit
    (Meixian, Guangdong): xid$^5$
* Jin (Wiktionary): xieh$^4$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih$^6$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): siak / sek / sit
    (Teochew, Peng'im): sêg$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xí
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sí
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^2$
*** Yale: syí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi³⁵/
** (Chengdu)
*** Sichuanese Pinyin: xi$^2$
*** Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xi
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi²¹/
** (Dungan)
*** Cyrillic and Wiktionary: щи (xi, I)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi²⁴/
    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sik$^1$
*** Yale: sīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɪk̚⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sit
*** Hakka Romanization System: xid$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: xid$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /sit̚²/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: xid$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /sit̚¹/
* Jin
** (Taiyuan)
*** Wiktionary: xieh$^4$
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /ɕiəʔ²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ¹/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
*** Tâi-lô: siak
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siag
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
*** Tâi-lô: sik
*** Phofsit Daibuun: seg
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /siɪk̚³²/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sit
*** Tâi-lô: sit
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sid
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /sit̚³²/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: sêg$^4$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sek
*** Sinological IPA : /sek̚²/
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*slɯɡ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 媳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13334 |
| Phonetic component | 息 |
| Rime group | 職 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 息 |
| Old Chinese | /*slɯɡ/ |
| Notes | 息晚起分化字 |

### Definitions

媳
* daughter-in-law

#### Compounds

* 兒媳／儿媳 (érxí)
* 兒媳婦兒／儿媳妇儿
* 大媳婦／大媳妇
* 姑媳
* 婆媳 (póxí)
* 娶媳婦／娶媳妇
* 媳婦／媳妇
* 媳婦兒／媳妇儿
* 小媳婦／小媳妇
* 弟媳 (dìxí)
* 弟媳婦／弟媳妇 (dìxífù)
* 新媳婦兒／新媳妇儿
* 毛腳媳婦／毛脚媳妇
* 童養媳／童养媳 (tóngyǎngxí)
* 老媳婦／老媳妇
* 重孫媳／重孙媳
* 長孫媳／长孙媳
* 養媳婦／养媳妇

### References

* “媳”, 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–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “媳”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 253.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): せき (seki)、しゃく (shaku)
* Kun: よめ (yome)

## Korean
### Hanja

媳 (eum 식 (sik))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

媳: Hán Nôm readings: tức
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#### References

* Nom Foundation