Day #2 - 姛
Mandarin: dòng / ㄉㄨㄥˋ Cantonese: dung6 Other chinese languages: search in dictionary Japanese: ズ、ツ、トウ (not historically borrowed or used) [1] [2] Korean: 동 (not historically borrowed or used) [1]
It's a literary chinese (wenyan) character whose meaning is "stiff, straight neck". It is not widely used, outside of some very specific contexts. [1] [2]
⿰ - It's components include 女[woman] which is used semantically to denote something graceful or good-looking; and the symbol 同[same, identical], which is used for its phonetic sound. It is a phono-semantic character. It has 9 strokes.
In modern times, it is used to refer to lesbians and sapphic individuals, deriving from the word "female homosexual (女同)", in which case it is instead classifiable as a compound ideograph.
