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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 心人一弓 (POMN), four-corner 98021, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 394, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10905
  • Dae Jaweon: page 730, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2330, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6109

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lo) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *l̥ʰus, *lo).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/jio/
Shao
Rongfen
/io/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juə̆/
Li
Rong
/io/
Wang
Li
/jĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ yu ›
Old
Chinese
/*lo/
English enjoy

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. 15856
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lo/

Definitions

  1. happy; pleased; delightful

Compounds

  • 勝任愉快胜任愉快
  • 夷愉
  • 心曠神愉心旷神愉
  • 恬愉
  • 愉逸
  • 敷愉
  • 歡愉欢愉

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. pleasure

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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