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悠

悠

Translingual

Han character

悠 (radical 61 心+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人大心 (OKP), four-corner 28334, composition ⿱攸心)

  1. long, far, remote, distant
  2. leisurely

References

  • KangXi: page 388, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10681
  • Dae Jaweon: page 720, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2300, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+60A0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 悠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (攸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絛 *l̥ʰɯːw
窱 *ʔl'ɯːwʔ, *l̥ʰɯːws
蓧 *l̥ʰɯːw, *l'ɯːwɢ
條 *l'ɯːw
鋚 *l'ɯːw
鞗 *l'ɯːw
樤 *l'ɯːw
鰷 *l'ɯːw
莜 *l'ɯːws
翛 *slɯːw, *hljɯwɢ
筱 *slɯːwʔ
篠 *slɯːwʔ
修 *slɯw
脩 *slɯw
樇 *slɯw
滫 *slɯwʔ
悠 *lɯw
攸 *lɯw
浟 *lɯw
蓨 *l̥ʰɯːwɢ
滌 *l'ɯːwɢ
儵 *hljɯwɢ
倐 *hljɯwɢ
倏 *hljɯwɢ
虪 *hljɯwɢ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 悠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以周切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juw/
Li
Rong		 /iu/
Wang
Li		 /jĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 悠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*liw/
English long-brooding

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 悠
Reading # 1/1
No. 15479
Phonetic
component		 攸
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 猷
Old
Chinese		 /*lɯw/

Definitions

悠

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References

Japanese

Kanji

悠

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. permanence

Readings

Proper noun

悠 ‎(hiragana ゆう, romaji Yū)

  1. A male given name

Proper noun

悠 ‎(hiragana はるか, romaji Haruka)

  1. A female given name

Korean

Hanja

悠 • ‎(yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

悠 (du, đu)

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