友

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

From a pictograph of two hands meeting in friendship.

http://www.nihongo.aikidoka.ru/image/kanji/29/tomo/_a.gif

Han character

友 (radical 29 又+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 大水 (KE), four-corner 4004₇, composition ⿱一丿又)

1. friend, companion
2. fraternity

References

• KangXi: page 165, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3119
• Dae Jaweon: page 374, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 391, character 1
• Unihan data for U+53CB

See also

• 朋友

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Cantonese

Hanzi

友 (Yale yau5)

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Japanese

Kanji

友 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: とも (tomo)

Noun

友 (hiragana とも, romaji tomo)

1. friend; pal

Proper noun

友 (hiragana ゆう, romaji Yū)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

友
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 우 (revised: u, McCune-Reischauer: u)

• Name (hangeul): 벗()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

友 (pinyin yǒu (you3), Wade-Giles yu³)

Noun

友

1. friend

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Vietnamese

Han character

友 (hữu)