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U+53C8, 又
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53C8

[U+53C7]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+53C9]
See also: , , , , , and 𠬠

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

(radical 29 又+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 弓大 (NK), four-corner 17400)

  1. Kangxi radical #29, (again).

Descendants

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/又

References

  • KangXi: page 164, character 43
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3115
  • Dae Jaweon: page 374, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 390, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+53C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kɯːʔ
*qʰɯːʔ
*qʰʷɯs
*ɢʷɯʔ, *qʷɯ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs, *ɡʷɯ
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*qʰʷɯːʔ
*qʰʷɯːʔ, *ɡʷɯː
*ɡʷɯː
*ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*qʷɯ
*qʷɯ
*ɡʷɯ

Pictogram (象形) – a hand. Original form of (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs, “right (hand)”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (35)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦiuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦuwH/
Li
Rong
/ɣiuH/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ hjuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s/
English also, in addition

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 # 1/1
No. 15603
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷɯs/

Definitions

  1. again; once more
    • 下雨   Yòu xiàyǔ le!   It's raining again!
    •    xiǎng le yòu xiǎng   to think and think; to deeply think about
  2. also; in addition
  3. and; too
  4. (又……又……) both ... and ...
    • / 饿   yòu è yòu kě.   I am hungry and thirsty.

See also

  • (again): (zài)

Compounds

  • 又早
  • 又是
  • 又氣又急又气又急
  • 又當別論又当别论
  • 又要
  • 又說又笑又说又笑
  • 又讀又读
  • 又驚又喜又惊又喜
  • 可又來可又来
  • 日新又新
  • 欲言又止
  • 玄之又玄

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. again, as well
  2. also

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hựu, lại)

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References