妁

妁	U+5981, 妁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5981

← 妀
[U+5980]

CJK Unified Ideographs

如 →
[U+5982]

Translingual

Han character

妁 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女心戈 (VPI), four-corner 4742₀, composition ⿰女勺)

act as a go-between

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 255, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6058
Dae Jaweon: page 519, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1026, character 5
Unihan data for U+5981

Chinese

trad.		妁
simp. ^#		妁

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 妁
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
豹	*preːwɢs
趵	preːwɢs, preːwɢ
尥	breːw, b·reːwɢs
箹	ʔreːwɢs, ʔreːwɢ
杓	plew, pʰlew, bljewɢ, pleːwɢ
約	ʔlewɢs, ʔlewɢ
扚	pleːwʔ, pleːwɢ
釣	*pleːwɢs
瘹	*teːwɢs
芍	ɡleːwʔ, spʰlewɢ, pl'ewɢ, bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
酌	*pljewɢ
灼	*pljewɢ
勺	pljewɢ, bljewɢ
彴	*pljewɢ
犳	*pljewɢ
妁	pljewɢ, bljewɢ
汋	bljewɢ, sbreːwɢ
仢	*bljewɢ
葯	qlewɢ, qreːwɢ
礿	*lewɢ
肑	preːwɢ, pleːwɢ
瓝	*breːwɢ
的	*pleːwɢ
靮	*pleːwɢ
馰	*pleːwɢ
玓	*pleːwɢ
魡	*pleːwɢ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shuò (shuo⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zoek³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shuò
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shuò
  - Wade–Giles: shuo⁴
  - Yale: shwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuoh
  - Palladius: шо (šo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zoek³
  - Yale: jeuk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoek⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: zêg³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœːk̚³/

Middle Chinese: tsyak, dzyak

Rime
Character	妁	妁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	之若切	市若切
Baxter	tsyak	dzyak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨɐk̚/	/d͡ʑɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɐk̚/	/d͡ʑiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɑk̚/	/d͡ʑiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨak̚/	/d͡ʑɨak̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiak̚/	/ʑiak̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭak̚/	/ʑĭak̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ak̚/	/ʑi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo	shuó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoek³	soek⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*pljewɢ/, /*bljewɢ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	妁	妁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11194	11198
Phonetic component	勺	勺
Rime group	藥	藥
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	灼
Old Chinese	/*pljewɢ/	/*bljewɢ/

Definitions

妁

(literary) matchmaker of the bride's side
a surname

Compounds

媒妁 (méishuò)
媒妁之言
男媒女妁

Japanese

Kanji

妁

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
Kun: なこうど (nakōdo, 妁)^{←なかうど (nakaudo, 妁, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

妁 • (jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

妁: Hán Nôm readings: chước

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References

Nom Foundation