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U+5076, 偶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5076

[U+5075]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5077]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人田中月 (OWLB), four-corner 26227, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 112, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 899
  • Dae Jaweon: page 238, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 190, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5076

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
*ŋoː, *ŋo
*ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
*ŋoːʔ
*ŋoːʔ
*ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
*ŋoːʔ
*ŋo
*ŋo
*ŋo, *ŋos
*ŋo
*ŋo
*ŋo
*ŋo, *ŋoŋ
*ŋo
*ŋos
*ŋos
*ŋos
*ŋos
*ŋoŋ
*ŋoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs) : semantic  (person) + phonetic  (OC *ŋo, *ŋos) – a statue of a person, an idol.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (31) (31)
Final () (137) (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋəuX/ /ŋəuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋəuX/ /ŋəuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋəuX/ /ŋəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋəwX/ /ŋəwH/
Li
Rong
/ŋuX/ /ŋuH/
Wang
Li
/ŋəuX/ /ŋəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋə̯uX/ /ŋə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ǒu òu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ǒu
Middle
Chinese
‹ nguwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ŋˤ(r)oʔ/
English pair, double

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. 15913 15918
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋoːʔ/ /*ŋoːs/

Noun

  1. idol, image
       ǒuxiàng   idol
    穿8球衣運動員 [MSC, trad.]
    穿8球衣运动员 [MSC, simp.]
    Chuān 8 hào qiúyī de nà ge yùndòngyuán shì wǒ de ǒuxiàng! [Pinyin]
    The athlete wearing no. 8 is my idol!
  1. couple, pair

Adjective

  1. even (number)
    /    ǒushù   even number

Adverb

  1. accidentally, coincidentally, by accident, by chance, occasionally
    /    ǒuěr   occasionally
       ǒurán   occasionally, accidentally

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Adjective

(-na inflection, hiragana たま, romaji tama)

  1. occasional

Inflection

Noun

(hiragana たま, romaji tama)

  1. rarity

Korean

Hanja

(u) (hangeul , revised u, McCune-Reischauer u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ngẫu, ngẩu, ngậu)

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