婀

See also: 娿

婀	U+5A40, 婀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A40

← 娿
[U+5A3F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

婁 →
[U+5A41]

Translingual

Han character

婀 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女弓中口 (VNLR), four-corner 4142₀, composition ⿰女阿)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 263, character 47
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6382
Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 32
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1054, character 8
Unihan data for U+5A40

Chinese

trad.		婀
simp. ^#		婀
alternative forms		妸娿

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
砢	*ɡ·raːlʔ
柯	*kaːl
菏	kaːl, ɡaːl
牁	*kaːl
滒	*kaːl
哥	*kaːl
歌	*kaːl
謌	*kaːl
鴚	*kaːl
哿	*kaːlʔ
舸	*kaːlʔ
笴	kaːlʔ, kaːnʔ
軻	kʰaːl, kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
珂	*kʰaːl
可	*kʰaːlʔ
岢	*kʰaːlʔ
坷	kʰaːlʔ, kʰaːls
蚵	kʰaːls, ɡaːl
呵	qʰaːl, qʰaːls
訶	*qʰaːl
抲	*qʰaːl
荷	qʰaːls, ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
何	ɡaːl, ɡaːlʔ
河	*ɡaːl
苛	*ɡaːl
魺	*ɡaːl
袔	*ɡaːls
阿	*qaːl
妸	qaːl, qaːlʔ
疴	qaːl, kʰraːls
鈳	*qaːl
娿	qaːl, qaːlʔ
痾	*qaːl
跒	*kʰraːlʔ
閜	*qʰraːlʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ē, ě (e¹, e³)

(Zhuyin): ㄜ, ㄜˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): o² / o¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ē
  - Zhuyin: ㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: e
  - Wade–Giles: o¹
  - Yale: ē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: e
  - Palladius: э (e)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ě
  - Zhuyin: ㄜˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ě
  - Wade–Giles: o³
  - Yale: ě
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ee
  - Palladius: э (e)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: o² / o¹
  - Yale: ó / ō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: o² / o¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: o² / o¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔː³⁵/, /ɔː⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
  - Tâi-lô: o
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /o⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /o⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: 'aX

Rime
Character	婀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏可切
Baxter	'aX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔa^X/
Li Rong	/ʔɑ^X/
Wang Li	/ɑ^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔɑ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ě
Expected Cantonese Reflex	o²

Definitions

婀

beautiful; graceful
婀娜 ― ēnuó ― lithe and graceful
(alt. form 娿) Used in 媕婀 (“indecisive”).

Compounds

娜婀
婀娜 (ēnuó)
婀娜多姿 (ēnuóduōzī)
媕婀 (ān'ē)

References

“婀”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 婀

婀

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: あ (a)
Kan-on: あ (a)
Kun: あだ (ada, 婀)、あだっぽい (adappoi, 婀っぽい)、たおやか (taoyaka, 婀やか)

Korean

Hanja

婀 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a)

be beautiful
be graceful

Vietnamese

Han character

婀: Hán Nôm readings: a

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References

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