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虞

虞

Translingual

Han character

虞 (radical 141 虍+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜心口一大 (YPRMK) or 卜心口女大 (YPRVK), four-corner 21281, composition ⿸虍吳)

  1. concerned about, anxious, worried
  2. fear, danger, risk
  3. an ancient people of China, led by Shun
  4. their state
  5. the capital of the state
  6. a Chinese surname, adopted by its rulers and people

References

  • KangXi: page 1074, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32723
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1543, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2827, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+865E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 虞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (吴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鋘 *ŋʷaː, *ŋʷraː
麌 *ŋʷaː, *ŋʷaʔ
祦 *ŋaː
誤 *ŋʷaːs
悞 *ŋʷaːs
娛 *ŋʷaːs, *ŋʷa
虞 *ŋʷa
澞 *ŋʷa
鸆 *ŋʷa
俣 *ŋʷaʔ
噳 *ŋʷaʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 虞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 虞俱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋuə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ŋio/
Wang
Li		 /ŋĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 虞 虞
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yú yú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngju › ‹ ngju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ]ʷ(r)a/ /*[ŋ]ʷ(r)a/
English foresee gamester; forester

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 虞
Reading # 1/1
No. 13103
Phonetic
component		 吴
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋʷa/

Definitions

虞

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Japanese

Kanji

虞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

虞 ‎(hiragana おそれ, romaji osore)

  1. Alternative form of 恐れ

Korean

Hanja

虞 • ‎(u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

虞 (ngu)

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