# 妐

| 妐 | U+5990, &#22928; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5990 |
| ← 妏 [U+598F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 妑 → [U+5991] |

## Translingual
### Han character

妐 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女金戈 (VCI), four-corner 4843$_2$, composition ⿰女公)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 14
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6080
* Dae Jaweon: page 520, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1032, character 6
* Unihan data for U+5990

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 慃 | *qroːŋʔ |
| 袞 | *kluːnʔ |
| 蔉 | *kluːnʔ |
| 滾 | *kluːnʔ |
| 忩 | *sʰloːŋ |
| 鬆 | *sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰluːŋ, *skʰloŋ, *sqʰloŋ |
| 凇 | *sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ |
| 公 | *kloːŋ |
| 蚣 | *kloːŋ, *kljoŋ |
| 翁 | *qloːŋ |
| 螉 | *qloːŋ |
| 蓊 | *qloːŋ, *qloːŋʔ |
| 嗡 | *qloːŋ |
| 滃 | *qloːŋʔ |
| 暡 | *qloːŋʔ |
| 勜 | *qloːŋʔ |
| 塕 | *qloːŋʔ |
| 瓮 | *qloːŋs |
| 崧 | *sqʰluŋ |
| 菘 | *sqʰluŋ |
| 硹 | *sqʰluŋ |
| 淞 | *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ |
| 蜙 | *sqʰloŋ |
| 倯 | *sqʰloŋ |
| 松 | *sɢloŋ |
| 訟 | *sɢloŋ, *sɢloŋs |
| 頌 | *sɢloŋs, *loŋ |
| 忪 | *kljoŋ |
| 彸 | *kljoŋ |
| 衳 | *kljoŋ |
| 伀 | *kljoŋ |
| 妐 | *kljoŋ |
| 炂 | *kljoŋ |
| 鈆 | *kljoŋ, *lon |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kljoŋ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 公 (OC *kloːŋ).

### Etymology

Related to 公 (OC *C.qˁoŋ) (Baxter and Sagart, 2017). See there for more.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhōng (zhong$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zung$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhōng
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
*** Wade–Giles: chung$^1$
*** Yale: jūng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
*** Palladius: чжун (čžun)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zung$^1$
*** Yale: jūng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzung$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zung$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: tsyowng
Rime :
| Character | 妐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 鍾 (7) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 職容切 |
| Baxter | tsyowng |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕɨoŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕioŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕioŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cuawŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕioŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕĭwoŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡ɕi̯woŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhōng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zung$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*t-qoŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kljoŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 妐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhōng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsyowng › |
| Old Chinese | /*t-qoŋ/ |
| English | father-in-law |
| 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 | 妐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4125 |
| Phonetic component | 公 |
| Rime group | 東 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 鍾 |
| Old Chinese | /*kljoŋ/ |

### Definitions

妐
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) husband's father
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) husband's elder brother

### Compounds

* 女妐

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: しゅ (shu)
* Kan-on: しょう (shō)