嬰

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

Translingual

Han character

嬰 (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: volume 2, page 1086, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5B30

Chinese
trad. 嬰
simp. 婴

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (賏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瀴 *qreːŋs, *mqeːŋʔ, *qeːŋʔ
甖 *qreːŋ
鸚 *qreːŋ
櫻 *qreːŋ
嚶 *qreːŋ
罌 *qreːŋ
鸎 *qreːŋ
譻 *qreːŋ
賏 *qreŋs, *qeŋ
嬰 *qeŋ
瓔 *qeŋ
纓 *qeŋ
攖 *qeŋ
蘡 *qeŋ
癭 *qeŋʔ
廮 *qeŋʔ
巊 *qeːŋʔ

Pronunciation
Note:
  • eng - literary;
  • iⁿ/eⁿ/eeⁿ - vernacular.
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
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
  2. (literary) to bother

Compounds
  • 嬰疾／婴疾
  • 嬰薄／婴薄
  • 嬰鱗／婴鳞
  • 孺子嬰／孺子婴
  • 棄嬰／弃婴 (qìyīng)
  • 棄璧負嬰／弃璧负婴
  • 溺嬰／溺婴 (nìyīng)

Japanese

Kanji
嬰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  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
Compounds
  • 晏 (あん)嬰 (えい) (an'ei)
  • 嬰 (えい)羽 (う) (eiu)
  • 嬰 (えい)音 (おん) (eion)
  • 嬰孩 (えいがい) (eigai)
  • 嬰 (えい)記 (き)号 (ごう) (eikigō)
  • 嬰 (えい)商 (しょう) (eishō)
  • 嬰 (えい)児 (じ) (eiji)
  • 嬰児 (みどりご) (midorigo)
  • 嬰児殺 (えいじさつ) (eijisatsu)
  • 嬰 (えい)幼 (よう)児 (じ) (eiyōji)
  • 嬰 (え)児 (じ)籠 (こ) (ejiko)
  • 孩嬰 (がいえい) (gaiei)
  • 孺 (じゅ)嬰 (えい) (juei)
  • 退嬰 (たいえい) (taiei)
  • 退嬰的 (たいえいてき) (taieiteki)

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 (hiragana えい, rōmaji ei)

  1. newborn baby; infant
  2. surround

Noun

嬰 (hiragana えい, rōmaji 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 (anh)

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