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媼

媼

See also: 媪

Translingual

Han character

媼 (radical 38 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女田人廿 (VWOT), four-corner 4641₇, composition ⿰女𥁕)

old woman
lower-class woman

References

KangXi: page 268, character 19

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6588

Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 38

Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 2, page 1071, character 21

Unihan data for U+5ABC

Chinese

trad.		媼
simp.		媪

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): ǎo (ao³)

(Zhuyin): ㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ou²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: ǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄠˇ
  - Wade-Giles: ao³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ao
  - IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ou²
  - Yale: óu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ou²
  - IPA ^(key): /ou̯³⁵/

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter-Sagart): /*ʔˤuʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媼
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔaw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˤuʔ/
English	old woman
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.

Definitions

媼

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Compounds

媼相／媪相
媼神／媪神

嬭媼／嬭媪
富媼／富媪

老媼／老媪
魔媼／魔媪

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

媼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: おう (ō)

Kan’on: おう (ō)

Kun: おうな (ouna)

Korean

Hanja

媼 • ‎(on, o, ol) (hangeul 온, 오, 올, revised on, o, ol, McCune-Reischauer on, o, ol, Yale on, o, ol)

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