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隅

隅

Translingual

Han character

隅 (radical 170 阜+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓中田中月 (NLWLB), four-corner 76227)

  1. corner, nook, remote place

References

  • KangXi: page 1356, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41743
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1860, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4145, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9685

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 隅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (禺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
齵 *ŋoː, *ŋo
偶 *ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
耦 *ŋoːʔ
藕 *ŋoːʔ
髃 *ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
蕅 *ŋoːʔ
愚 *ŋo
隅 *ŋo
禺 *ŋo, *ŋos
湡 *ŋo
堣 *ŋo
嵎 *ŋo
鰅 *ŋo, *ŋoŋ
鍝 *ŋo
遇 *ŋos
寓 *ŋos
庽 *ŋos
媀 *ŋos
喁 *ŋoŋ
顒 *ŋoŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 隅
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 隅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ(r)o/
English angle, corner

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 隅
Reading # 1/1
No. 15920
Phonetic
component		 禺
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋo/

Definitions

隅

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Japanese

Kanji

隅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Kanji in this term
隅
すみ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Noun

隅 ‎(hiragana すみ, romaji sumi)

  1. corner (e.g., of a room or board surface); nook

See also

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

隅 (ngung, ngong)

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