愚人

Chinese

		stupid	man; person; people
trad. (愚人)		愚	人
simp. #(愚人)		愚	人

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yúrén

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ ㄖㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴ jan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yúrén
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yúrén
    • Wade–Giles: yü²-jên²
    • Yale: yú-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuren
    • Palladius: юйжэнь (jujžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵ ʐən³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 愚人 漁人／渔人 餘人／余人

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴ jan⁴
    • Yale: yùh yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴ jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴ yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹ jɐn²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 愚人 漁人／渔人

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• Middle Chinese: ngju nyin

Rime
Character	愚	人
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	虞俱切	如鄰切
Baxter	ngju	nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨo/	/ȵiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋio/	/ȵin/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋio/	/ȵʑjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuə̆/	/ȵin/
Li Rong	/ŋio/	/ȵiĕn/
Wang Li	/ŋĭu/	/ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯u/	/ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú	rén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4	jan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋo  njin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	人
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rén
Middle Chinese	‹ nyin ›
Old Chinese	/*ni[ŋ]/
English	(other) person
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	愚	人
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	15919	10800
Phonetic component	禺	人
Rime group	侯	眞
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime		仁
Old Chinese	/*ŋo/	/*njin/

Noun

愚人

1. (literary) stupid person; fool; simpleton

   • 尤二姐滴淚說道：「你們拿我作愚人待，什么事我不知。」 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     尤二姐滴泪说道：「你们拿我作愚人待，什么事我不知。」 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber, mid-18^th century CE

     Yóu Èrjiě dīlèi shuōdào: “Nǐmen ná wǒ zuò yúrén dài, shénme shì wǒ bù zhī.” [Pinyin]

     Second Sister You said with tears dripping, “You treat me like a fool. Whatever it is, I do not know.”

   • 鴻雁于飛，哀鳴嗷嗷。維此哲人，謂我劬勞。維彼愚人，謂我宣驕。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     鸿雁于飞，哀鸣嗷嗷。维此哲人，谓我劬劳。维彼愚人，谓我宣骄。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Hóngyàn yú fēi, āimíng áo'áo. Wéi cǐ zhérén, wèi wǒ qúláo. Wéi bǐ yúrén, wèi wǒ xuānjiāo. [Pinyin]

     The wild geese are flying about,
     And melancholy is their cry of ao-ao.
     There were they, wise men,
     who recognized our pain and toil;
     If they had been stupid men,
     They would have said we were proclaiming our insolence.

2. (tarot) the Fool

Synonyms

• 人頭豬腦／人头猪脑 (réntóuzhūnǎo) (chiefly Cantonese)
• 低能兒／低能儿 (dīnéng'ér)
• 侗戇／侗戆 (Hokkien)
• 傻子 (shǎzi)
• 傻瓜 (shǎguā)
• 呆子 (dāizi)
• 呆瓜 (dāiguā)
• 哈卵 (ha³ lonn³) (Xiang, Southwestern Mandarin, vulgar)
• 哚哥 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 壋將／垱将 (Hokkien)
• 大戇呆／大戆呆 (Hokkien)
• 大戇牯／大戆牯 (Hakka)
• 大番薯 (Hakka)
• 戇人／戆人 (Hakka, Hokkien, Wu)
• 戇呆／戆呆 (Hokkien)
• 戇囝／戆囝 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 戇大呆／戆大呆 (Hokkien)
• 戇大豬／戆大猪 (Hokkien)
• 戇猴／戆猴 (Hokkien)
• 戇鳩／戆鸠 (ngong⁶ gau¹) (Cantonese)
• 白痴 (báichī)
• 笨人 (bènrén)
• 笨蛋 (bèndàn)
• 笨貨／笨货 (bènhuò)
• 老襯／老衬 (lou⁵ can³) (Cantonese)
• 蠢人 (chǔnrén)
• 蠢材 (chǔncái)
• 蠢蛋
• 豆渣腦殼／豆渣脑壳 (dou⁴ za¹ nao³ ko²) (Sichuanese)
• 錘哥／锤哥 (Hokkien)
• 闇雞／𬮴鸡 (Hokkien)
• 鵝牯／鹅牯 (Hakka)

 

Derived terms

• 愚人節／愚人节 (Yúrénjié)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
愚	人
ぐ Grade: S	じん Grade: 1
on’yomi	kan’on

Kanji in this term
愚	人
ぐ Grade: S	にん Grade: 1
on’yomi	goon

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぐじん [gùjíń] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) ぐ​じん [gúꜜjìǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɡɯ̟ᵝʑĩɴ]

• (Tokyo) ぐにん [gùníń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɡɯ̟ᵝɲ̟ĩɴ]

Noun

愚(ぐ)人(じん) or 愚(ぐ)人(にん) • (gujin or gunin) 

1. idiot

   Synonyms: 愚か者 (orokamono), 愚者 (gusha)

Idioms

• 愚(ぐ)人(にん)は夏(なつ)の虫(むし) (gunin wa natsu no mushi)

Korean

Hanja in this term
愚	人

Noun

愚人 • (u'in) (hangeul 우인)

1. Hanja form^? of 우인 (“idiot”).