嬰

See also: 婴
嬰 U+5B30, 嬰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B30
← 嬯
[U+5B2F]
CJK Unified Ideographs 嬱 →
[U+5B31]

Translingual

Traditional 嬰
Shinjitai
(extended)
𰋷
Simplified 婴

Han character

嬰 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月金女 (BCV), four-corner 66404, composition ⿱賏女)

References

  • KangXi: page 273, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6828
  • Dae Jaweon: page 541, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1086, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5B30

Chinese

trad. 嬰
simp. 婴
2nd round simp. 𰋷
alternative forms 孆/𫝭 ancient
孾/𪧀 ancient

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 賏 (“a string of shells”) + 女 (“woman”).

Etymology

Probably related to 縈 (OC *qʷeŋ, “to entwine”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • eⁿ/iⁿ - vernacular;
  • eng - literary.

Rime
Character 嬰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於盈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔiᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔiɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔiajŋ/
Li
Rong
/ʔiɛŋ/
Wang
Li
/ĭɛŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jing1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 嬰 嬰
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yīng yīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjieng › ‹ ʔjieng ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔeŋ/ /*ʔeŋ/
English surround; necklace baby

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 嬰
Reading # 1/1
No. 15336
Phonetic
component
賏
Rime
group
耕
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
嬰
Old
Chinese
/*qeŋ/

Definitions

嬰

  1. baby; infant (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. † necklace
  3. † to put on; to wear
  4. † to surround
  5. † to entangle; to fetter
  6. † to suffer
  7. † to offend
  8. † to exert
  9. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

𰋷

Kyūjitai

嬰

Kanji

嬰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𰋷)

  1. young child, newborn child
  2. used as western symbol ♯ sharp to mark the accidentals of musical notes
  3. necklace
  4. put around one's neck

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
嬰
えい
Hyōgaiji
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 嬰 (MC ʔiᴇŋ).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

Affix

嬰(えい) • (ei) 

  1. newborn baby; infant
  2. surround

Noun

嬰(えい) • (ei) 

  1. (music) sharp (♯)
    嬰(えい)ヘ ― eihe ― F-sharp

Antonyms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

嬰 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嬰: Hán Việt readings: anh

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