裕

See also: 袷

裕 U+88D5, 裕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-88D5 ← 裔 [U+88D4] CJK Unified Ideographs 裖 → [U+88D6]

Translingual

Han character

裕 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中金人口 (LCOR), four-corner 3826₈, composition ⿰衤谷)

1. abundant, rich, plentiful

See also

• 袷

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1117, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34305
• Dae Jaweon: page 1583, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3094, character 13
• Unihan data for U+88D5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		裕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 裕
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (谷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
螸	*lo
裕	*loɡs
容	*loŋ
溶	*loŋ, *loŋʔ
鎔	*loŋ
蓉	*loŋ
傛	*loŋ, *loŋʔ
褣	*loŋ
搈	*loŋ
瑢	*loŋ
嵱	*loŋ
熔	*loŋ
榕	*loŋ
塎	*loŋʔ
谷	*ɦkroːɡ, *kloːɡ, *ɡ·loːɡ
唂	*kloːɡ
焀	*ɡloːɡ
俗	*ljoɡ
欲	*loɡ
浴	*loɡ
鵒	*loɡ
峪	*ɦkloːɡ
鋊	*loɡ
輍	*loɡ
慾	*loɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *loɡs) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : phonetic 谷 (OC *ɦkroːɡ, *kloːɡ, *ɡ·loːɡ, “hole, gap”) + semantic 衣 (“clothes”) — some space between one's clothes, representing comfort and leeway.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *luk (“enough, satiated”). Cognate with Burmese လောက် (lauk, “enough, sufficient”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ū / jī / lū / jū

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ru⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁶
    • Yale: yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ū
    • Tâi-lô: ū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: u
    • IPA (Xiamen): /u²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī
    • Tâi-lô: jī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ji
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zi²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lū
    • Tâi-lô: lū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lu³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lu⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jū
    • Tâi-lô: jū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ju
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zu²²/

Note:

• ū/jī - literary;
• lū/jū - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: ru⁶
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jŭ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zu³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: yuH

Rime
Character	裕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊戍切
Baxter	yuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/jioH/
Shao Rongfen	/ioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆H/
Li Rong	/ioH/
Wang Li	/jĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*loɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	裕
Reading #	1/1
No.	4283
Phonetic component	谷
Rime group	竇
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	裕
Old Chinese	/*loɡs/

Definitions

裕

1. abundant; rich; plentiful
2. to enrich

Compounds

• 優裕／优裕 (yōuyù)
• 光前裕後／光前裕后
• 充裕 (chōngyù)
• 光裕
• 垂裕後昆／垂裕后昆
• 富裕 (fùyù)
• 寬裕／宽裕 (kuānyù)
• 應付裕如／应付裕如
• 節用裕民／节用裕民
• 綽有餘裕／绰有余裕
• 綽綽有裕／绰绰有裕
• 裕固 (yùgù)
• 裕固族 (Yùgùzú)
• 裕國／裕国
• 裕如 (yùrú)
• 裕裕
• 豐裕／丰裕 (fēngyù)
• 餘裕／余裕 (yúyù)

 

Japanese

Kanji

裕

(Jōyō kanji)

1. abundant, rich
2. fertile

Readings

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan’yō-on: ゆう (yū, Jōyō)
• Kun: ゆたか (yutaka, 裕か)、ゆたげ (yutage, 裕げ)、ひろい (hiroi, 裕い)
• Nanori: すけ (suke)、ひろ (hiro)、まさ (masa)、みち (michi)、やす (yasu)

Compounds

Compounds

• 裕(ゆう)然(ぜん) (yūzen)
• 裕(ゆう)度(ど) (yūdo)
• 裕(ゆう)富(ふ) (yūfu)
• 裕(ゆう)福(ふく) (yūfuku)
• 寛(かん)裕(ゆう) (kan'yū)
• 富(ふ)裕(ゆう) (fuyū)
• 豊(ほう)裕(ゆう) (hōyū)
• 余(よ)裕(ゆう) (yoyū)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
裕
ゆたか Grade: S
kun'yomi

Nominalization of 豊か (yutaka, “abundant, plentiful”).

Proper noun

裕(ゆたか) • (Yutaka) 

1. a male or female given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
裕
ひろし Grade: S
kun'yomi

Nominalization of classical adjective 広し (hiroshi), modern 広い (hiroi, “vast, wide”).

Proper noun

裕(ひろし) • (Hiroshi) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

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

1. enough, sufficient, ample, plenty

Vietnamese

Han character

裕: Hán Việt readings: dụ, dủ, dũ
裕: Nôm readings: dụ

1. chữ Hán form of dụ (“abundant; plentiful”).