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猶

猶

See also: 犹

Translingual

Alternative forms

Han character

猶 (radical 94 犬+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大竹廿金田 (KHTCW), four-corner 48261)

References

  • KangXi: page 715, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20557
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1127, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1359, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7336

Chinese

trad. 猶
simp. 犹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (酉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
楢 *kʰjuʔ, *lu
逎 *ʔslu
遒 *sklu, *sɡlu
蝤 *sklu, *sɡlu
揂 *sklu
酒 *ʔsluʔ
媨 *sklus
鞧 *skʰlu
緧 *skʰlu
趥 *skʰlu, *skʰluŋs
酋 *sɡlu
崷 *sɡlu
鰌 *sɡlu
煪 *sɡlu
醜 *l̥ʰjuʔ
猶 *klus, *lu, *lus
猷 *lu
輶 *lu, *luʔ, *lus
偤 *lu
莤 *lu, *sruɡ
蕕 *lu
庮 *lu, *luʔ
槱 *luʔ, *lus
梄 *luʔ
丣 *luʔ
酉 *luʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *klus, *lu, *lus) : semantic 犬 + phonetic 酋 ‎(OC *sɡlu).

Pronunciation

Note: This character is used as a substitute for Min Nan iáu/iah/ah/á/iá, which may be etymologically unrelated.

Rime
Character 猶 猶 猶
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 以 (36) 見 (28) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 尤 (136) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) III III III
Fanqie 以周切 居祐切 余救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨu/ /kɨuH/ /jɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiu/ /kiuH/ /jiuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iəu/ /kiəuH/ /iəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juw/ /kuwH/ /juwH/
Li
Rong		 /iu/ /kiuH/ /iuH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭəu/ /kĭəuH/ /jĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ə̯u/ /ki̯ə̯uH/ /i̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yóu jiù yòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 猶 猶
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yóu yóu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yuw › ‹ yuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ(r)]u/ /*[ɢ(r)]u/
English still, yet similar

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 猶 猶 猶
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 15566 15567 15580
Phonetic
component		 酉 酉 酉
Rime
group		 幽 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 救 猷 狖
Old
Chinese		 /*klus/ /*lu/ /*lus/

Definitions

猶

  1. (literary) still; yet; as before
  2. Jew, Jewish

Synonyms

  • (Min Nan) 猶閣／犹阁

Derived terms

  • 猶太／犹太 (Yóutài)
  • (Min Nan) 猶是／犹是
  • (Min Nan) 猶太／犹太 (Yóutài)
  • (Min Nan) 猶閣咧／犹阁咧
  • (Min Nan) 猶毋過／犹毋过
  • (Min Nan) 猶有／犹有
  • (Min Nan) 猶原／犹原

References

  • “猶”, in Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典) (in Mandarin), accessed 2011-10-19

Japanese

Kanji

猶

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

猶 • ‎(yu) (hangeul 유, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

猶 (do)

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