媊

媊 U+5A8A, 媊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A8A ← 媉 [U+5A89] CJK Unified Ideographs 媋 → [U+5A8B]

Translingual

Han character

媊 (Kangxi radical 38, 女おんな+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女おんな廿にじゅう月がつ弓ゆみ (VTBN), four-corner 4842₁, composition ⿰女おんな前まえ)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 266, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6486
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1068, character 16
• Unihan data for U+5A8A

Chinese

trad.		媊
simp. #		媊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (前まえ) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
媊	*ʔslel, *ʔslenʔ
煎せんじ	*ʔslen, *ʔslens
湔	*ʔslen, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn, *zleːn
鬋	*ʔslen, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens
剪	*ʔslenʔ
翦	*ʔslenʔ
譾	*ʔslenʔ
揃そろい	*ʔslenʔ
箭や	*ʔslens
葥	*ʔslens
前まえ	*zleːn
騚	*zleːn
歬	*zleːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *ʔslel, *ʔslenʔ) : semantic 女おんな (“woman”) + phonetic 前まえ (OC *zleːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qián (qian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin⁴ / zin²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qián
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cián
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien²
    • Yale: chyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyan
    • Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cin⁴ / zin²
    • Yale: chìhn / jín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin⁴ / dzin²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin⁴ / jin²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn²¹/, /t͡siːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsje, tsjenX

Rime
Character	媊	媊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	精せい (13)	精せい (13)
Final (韻いん)	支ささえ (11)	仙せん (77)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	III
Fanqie	即そく移うつり切きり	即そく淺あさ切きり
Baxter	tsje	tsjenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇ/	/t͡siᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛ/	/t͡siɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjɛ/	/t͡sjænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siə̆/	/t͡sianX/
Li Rong	/t͡sie/	/t͡siɛnX/
Wang Li	/t͡sǐe/	/t͡sĭɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sie̯/	/t͡si̯ɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī	jiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1	zin2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslel/, /*ʔslenʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媊	媊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10240	10246
Phonetic component	前まえ	前まえ
Rime group	歌うた	元もと
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	貲	翦
Old Chinese	/*ʔslel/	/*ʔslenʔ/

Definitions

媊

1. morning star (planet Venus as seen around dawn)

References

• “媊”, in 漢語かんご多功たこう能のう字じ庫こ (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港ほんこん中ちゅう文ぶん大學だいがく (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

媊

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kan’yō-on: し (shi)