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U+5981

Seal script

Radical:+ 3 strokes = 6 strokes total.
References:Guangyun: p.501#55 p.502#38 Kangxi: p.255#19 Cihai: p.378r5c01 GSR: 1120.e Hanyu: v2,p1026#05
Composition:Left: , right: . Compositionally related: 𡚷 .
Mandarin:shuò ㄕㄨㄛˋ
Cantonese:zoek3
Shuowen:女部》妁:酌也,斟酌二姓也。从女勺聲。
Guangyun:廣韻·入聲··》妁:媒妁。《說文》曰:酌也,斟酌二姓也。又音杓。
廣韻·入聲··》妁:媒妁。市若切。又音酌。六。
Kangxi:康熙字典·女部·》妁:《廣韻》之若切《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》職略切,𠀤音灼。《說文》媒也。又《集韻》實若切,音杓。酌也。斟酌,二姓也。又姓。
Fanqie:之若 (《廣韻·入聲··》) 市若 (《廣韻·入聲··》)
Equivalent readings: (《四書章句集注·孟子集注·滕文公章句下》)
Unihan definition:act as go-between

Example usage

孟子·滕文公下》:不待父母之命、媒之言,鑽穴隙相窺,踰牆相從,則父母國人皆賤之。
If the young people, without waiting for the orders of their parents, and the arrangements of the go-betweens, shall bore holes to steal a sight of each other, or get over the wall to be with each other, then their parents and all other people will despise them.
白虎通德論·嫁娶》:男不自專娶,女不自專嫁,必由父母,須媒何?
淮南子·繆稱訓》:譽人,而莫之德也。
焦氏易林·井之》:剝:媒先明,雖期不得。
說文解字·女部》::酌也,斟酌二姓也。
四書章句集注》:不待父母之命、媒之言,鑽穴隙相窺,踰牆相從,則父母國人皆賤之。
西遊記》:莫要擔閣了媒工夫。
金瓶梅》:殷勤說始終,孟姬愛嫁富家翁。
廣韻·》::媒
太平御覽·》:須媒何?
太平廣記·崔書生》:婚,予為媒可乎。
康熙字典·》::《廣韻》之若切《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》職略切,𠀤音灼。

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