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媠

媠

Translingual

Han character

媠 (radical 38 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女大一月 (VKMB), composition ⿰女⿱左月)

(Min Nan) good looking, pretty, handsome

References

KangXi: page 267, character 20

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6525

Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 19

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1064, character 10

Unihan data for U+5AA0

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 媠 – see 嫷. (This character, 媠, is a variant form of 嫷.)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 媠 – see 惰. (This character, 媠, is a variant form of 惰.)

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		媠
alt. forms		美水秀

Compare Thai สวย ‎(sǔai, “beautiful”).

Pronunciation

Min Nan (POJ): súi

Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: súi
  - Tâi-lô: suí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: suie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sui⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sui⁴¹/

Adjective

媠

(Min Nan) good-looking; pretty; beautiful

Antonyms

䆀 (bái)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
(Min Nan) “Entry #8310”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
(Min Nan) “臺灣閩南語按呢寫 (Tâi-oân Bân-lâm-gí Án-ne Siá) #313”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

媠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: た (ta), だ (da), な (na), ら (ra)

Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi), おこたる (okotaru), みめよいさま (mimeyoisama)

Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: thõa/thoã

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References

Nom Foundation