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U+55BB, 喻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BB

[U+55BA]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+55BC]
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Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人一弓 (ROMN), four-corner 68021, composition)

  1. metaphor, analogy
  2. example
  3. like

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
  • Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 657, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+55BB

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/jioH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ioH/
Wang
Li
/jĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ yuH ›
Old
Chinese
/*lo-s/
English understand; metaphor

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. 15880
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*los/
Notes

Definitions

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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

(dụ, dầu, dẫu, dỗ, nhủ, rủ, dẩu)

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