媼

媼 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女田人廿 (VWOT), four-corner 4641₇, composition ⿰女𥁕)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6588
• Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 1071, character 21
• Unihan data for U+5ABC

媼

1. (literary) old woman
2. (literary) woman, matriarch, matron
3. (literary, archaic) contraction of 媼神 / 媪神 (ǎoshén), also known as the earth goddess Houtu [Han dynasty]
   • 111 A.D., “安世歌”, in 漢書 [Book of Han‎^[1], 禮樂志:

     后土富媼。

     Hòu tǔ fù ǎo

     Houtu, the Prosperous Matriarch.

• “媼”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “媼”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02016
• 羅竹風 [Luo, Zhufeng], editor (1986–1994), “媼”, in 漢語大詞典 [Hanyu Da Cidian] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
• William Campbell (1913), “Áu 媼”, in A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 9.
• William Campbell (1913), “Ún 媼”, in A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 811.
• 徐兆泉 (2009), “媼”, in 臺灣四縣腔海陸腔客家話辭典 [Hakka Dictionary of Taiwan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka), Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., page 983.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “媪”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 3.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: おう (ō)^{←あう (au, historical)}
• Kan-on: おう (ō)^{←あう (au, historical)}
• Kun: おうな (ōna, 媼)

• “^▲媼”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

媼 • (on, o, ol) (hangeul 온, 오, 올, revised on, o, ol, McCune–Reischauer on, o, ol, Yale on, o, ol)

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