# 嫦

| 嫦 | U+5AE6, &#23270; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AE6 |
| ← 嫥 [U+5AE5] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嫧 → [U+5AE7] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嫦 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月月 (VFBB), four-corner 4942$_7$, composition ⿰女常)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 270, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6663
* Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1077, character 2
* Unihan data for U+5AE6

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 當 | *taːŋ, *taːŋs |
| 襠 | *taːŋ |
| 鐺 | *taːŋ, *sʰraːŋ |
| 簹 | *taːŋ |
| 璫 | *taːŋ |
| 檔 | *taːŋ, *taːŋs |
| 儅 | *taːŋ, *taːŋs |
| 蟷 | *taːŋ |
| 擋 | *taːŋʔ, *taːŋs |
| 黨 | *taːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋʔ |
| 讜 | *taːŋʔ |
| 欓 | *taːŋʔ |
| 譡 | *taːŋs |
| 闣 | *taːŋs |
| 瓽 | *taːŋs |
| 鏜 | *tʰaːŋ |
| 闛 | *tʰaːŋ, *daːŋ |
| 鼞 | *tʰaːŋ |
| 曭 | *tʰaːŋʔ |
| 儻 | *tʰaːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋs |
| 戃 | *tʰaːŋʔ |
| 矘 | *tʰaːŋʔ |
| 爣 | *tʰaːŋʔ |
| 攩 | *hl'aːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋs |
| 淌 | *tʰaːŋʔ |
| 倘 | *tʰaːŋʔ |
| 躺 | *tʰaːŋʔ |
| 趟 | *tʰaːŋs, *rtaːŋ, *rtaːŋs |
| 堂 | *daːŋ |
| 坣 | *daːŋ |
| 棠 | *daːŋ |
| 糛 | *daːŋ |
| 螳 | *daːŋ |
| 隚 | *daːŋ |
| 橖 | *daːŋ |
| 掌 | *tjaŋʔ |
| 廠 | *tʰjaŋʔ, *tʰjaŋs |
| 敞 | *tʰjaŋʔ |
| 僘 | *tʰjaŋʔ |
| 氅 | *tʰjaŋʔ |
| 常 | *djaŋ |
| 嘗 | *djaŋ |
| 裳 | *djaŋ |
| 徜 | *djaŋ |
| 尚 | *djaŋ, *djaŋs |
| 甞 | *djaŋ |
| 鋿 | *djaŋ |
| 嫦 | *djaŋ |
| 償 | *djaŋ, *djaŋs |
| 賞 | *hjaŋʔ |
| 瞠 | *rtʰaːŋ |
| 撐 | *rtʰaːŋ |
| 樘 | *rtʰaːŋ |
| 橕 | *rtʰaːŋ |
| 牚 | *rtʰaːŋs |
| 埫 | *tʰoŋʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djaŋ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 常 (OC *djaŋ)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): cháng (chang$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng$^4$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): sòng
    (Hailu, HRS): shong
* Eastern Min (BUC): siòng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): syong$^2$ / syeng$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): siông
    (Teochew, Peng'im): siang$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: cháng
*** Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cháng
*** Wade–Giles: chʻang$^2$
*** Yale: cháng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charng
*** Palladius: чан (čan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: soeng$^4$
*** Yale: sèuhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: soeng$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sêng$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /sœːŋ²¹/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sòng
*** Hakka Romanization System: song$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: song$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /soŋ¹¹/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: shong
*** Sinological IPA: /ʃoŋ⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: siòng
*** Sinological IPA : /suoŋ⁵³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: syong$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬyɒŋ¹³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: syeng$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬyøŋ¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siông
*** Tâi-lô: siông
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sioong
*** IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔŋ¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: siang$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siâng
*** Sinological IPA : /siaŋ⁵⁵/
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*djaŋ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 嫦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11159 |
| Phonetic component | 尚 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 常 |
| Old Chinese | /*djaŋ/ |
| Notes | 常後起分化字 |

### Definitions

嫦
* Only used in 嫦娥 (Cháng'é).

### References

* “嫦”, 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), “嫦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 27.
* William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 631.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* Used as a proper name

#### Readings

* Go-on: ごう (gō)、じょう (jō)
* Kan-on: こう (kō)、しょう (shō)
* Nanori: つき (tsuki)

## Korean
### Hanja

嫦 • (hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune–Reischauer hang)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

嫦: Hán Nôm readings: thường
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