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U+4FDE, 俞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FDE

[U+4FDD]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4FDF]
See also: and

Translingual

Alternative forms

Han character

(radical 9 +7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人一月弓 (OMBN), four-corner 80221, composition)

  1. A surname.
  2. consent, approve

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 105, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 703
  • Dae Jaweon: page 223, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 155, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4FDE

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character





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 () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*low, *lo
*l̥ʰoː
*l̥ʰoː, *lo
*l̥ʰoː
*l'oː, *slo
*l'oː, *l'os, *lo
*l'oː, *l'oːʔ, *lu, *lo
*l'oː, *l'oːs, *lo
*l'oː, *lo
*l̥ʰus, *lo
*slo, *hljo, *hljos, *lo
*sro
*hljo, *hljos
*hljo, *lo
*hljos
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo, *los
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo
*lo, *loʔ
*lo
*lo
*loʔ
*loʔ
*los
*los

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (36) (10)
Final () (24) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨo/ /ʈʰɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/jio/ /ʈʰiuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/io/ /ȶʰiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juə̆/ /ʈʰuwH/
Li
Rong
/io/ /ȶʰiuH/
Wang
Li
/jĭu/ /ȶʰĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯u/ /ȶʰi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ yu ›
Old
Chinese
/*lo/
English yes, agree; satisfied, at ease

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15841 15853
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰus/ /*lo/
Notes

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References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(yu) (hangeul , revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

()

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References