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嫦

嫦

Translingual

Han character

嫦 (radical 38 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月月 (VFBB), four-corner 49427, composition ⿰女常)

  1. Chang'e, the traditional Chinese moon goddess (used in the word 嫦娥)

Usage notes

This character is never used as a stand-alone character.

References

  • KangXi: page 270, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6663
  • Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1077, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5AE6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 嫦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Pronunciation

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

  1. Only used in 嫦娥 (Cháng'é).

Japanese

Kanji

嫦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Used as a proper name

Readings

Korean

Hanja

嫦 • ‎(hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune-Reischauer hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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