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乳

乳

乳 U+4E73, 乳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E73
← 乲
[U+4E72] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 乴 →
[U+4E74]

Translingual

Han character

乳 (radical 5 乙+7, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月木山 (BDU), four-corner 22410, composition ⿰孚乚)

References

  • KangXi: page 84, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 190
  • Dae Jaweon: page 171, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 55, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+4E73

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 乳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 乳
Oracle bone script Large seal script Small seal script
Oracle bone script

j25390
Large seal script

L34366

L14508

L14509

L14510

L14511
Small seal script

s08669
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (乳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
啂 *noːʔ
乳 *njoʔ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəw.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 乳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 而主切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵioX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵuə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ȵioX/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑi̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 rǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 乳
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 rǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nyuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*noʔ/
English milk; nipple

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 乳
Reading # 1/1
No. 10868
Phonetic
component		 乳
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 乳
Old
Chinese		 /*njoʔ/

Definitions

乳

  1. breast, nipples
  2. milk
  3. to suckle

Compounds

  • 哺乳 (bǔrǔ)
  • 哺母乳
  • 孳乳
  • 授乳
  • 母乳 (mǔrǔ)
  • 沐浴乳 (mùyùrǔ)
  • 洗髮乳／洗发乳
  • 潔面乳／洁面乳
  • 潤膚乳／润肤乳
  • 煉乳／炼乳 (liànrǔ)
  • 石鐘乳／石钟乳
  • 腐乳 (fǔrǔ)
  • 膠乳／胶乳 (jiāorǔ)
  • 護髮乳／护发乳
  • 酪乳 (làorǔ)
  • 酸乳
  • 隆乳 (lóngrǔ)
  • 雙乳／双乳
  • 離乳／离乳
  • 餵母乳／喂母乳

Japanese

Kanji

乳

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
乳
ちち
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

乳 ‎(hiragana ちち, romaji chichi)

  1. milk
  2. breast

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
乳
ち
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

乳 ‎(hiragana ち, romaji chi)

  1. milk
  2. breast

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 3 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

乳 • ‎(yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

乳 (nhũ, vú, nhú, nhỗ)

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