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悠

悠 U+60A0, 悠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60A0
← 悟
[U+609F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 悡 →
[U+60A1]

Translingual

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Han character

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悠 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人大心 (OKP), four-corner 28334, composition ⿱攸心)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 388, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10681
  • Dae Jaweon: page 720, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2300, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+60A0

Chinese

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trad. 悠
simp. # 悠

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (攸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絛 *l̥ʰɯːw
窱 *ʔl'ɯːwʔ, *l̥ʰɯːws
蓧 *l̥ʰɯːw, *l'ɯːwɢ
條 *l'ɯːw
鋚 *l'ɯːw
鞗 *l'ɯːw
樤 *l'ɯːw
鰷 *l'ɯːw
莜 *l'ɯːws
翛 *slɯːw, *hljɯwɢ
筱 *slɯːwʔ
篠 *slɯːwʔ
修 *slɯw
脩 *slɯw
樇 *slɯw
滫 *slɯwʔ
悠 *lɯw
攸 *lɯw
浟 *lɯw
蓨 *l̥ʰɯːwɢ
滌 *l'ɯːwɢ
儵 *hljɯwɢ
倐 *hljɯwɢ
倏 *hljɯwɢ
虪 *hljɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lɯw) : phonetic 攸 (OC *lɯw) + semantic 心 (“heart; mind”)

Etymology

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Uncertain. Compare with Burmese ယော်ယမ်း (yauyam:, “to yearn for a distant thing”).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 悠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以周切
Baxter yuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jɨu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jiu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/iəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/juw/
Li
Rong 		/iu/
Wang
Li 		/jĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jau4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 悠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yōu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*liw/
English long-brooding

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 悠
Reading # 1/1
No. 15479
Phonetic
component 		攸
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		猷
Old
Chinese 		/*lɯw/

Definitions

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悠

  1. remote; distant
  2. leisurely
    悠遊字在／悠游字在  ―  Yōuyóu Zìzài  ―  An animated series, also known as The Wonderful World of Chinese Characters
  3. to swing

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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悠

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. permanence

Readings

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Proper noun

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悠(ゆう) • (Yū) 

  1. a male given name

Proper noun

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悠(はるか) • (Haruka) 

  1. a female given name

Korean

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Wikisource

悠 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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悠: Hán Nôm readings: du, đu

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