尤

See also: 尢 and ㄤ

尤 U+5C24, 尤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C24 ← 尣 [U+5C23] CJK Unified Ideographs 尥 → [U+5C25]

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

尤 (radical 43, 尢+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 戈大山 (IKU), four-corner 4301₀, composition ⿺尢丶)

Derived charactersEdit

• 㕱, 㚭, 忧, 扰, 沋, 肬, 犹, 紌(𬘕), 蚘, 訧, 㞃, 䤞, 就, 駀, 魷(鱿), 尨, 𡯟, 𬡸, 𪨈, 疣

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 298, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7543
• Dae Jaweon: page 593, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 551, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5C24

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		尤

Glyph originEdit

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (尤) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
尤	*ɢʷɯ
疣	*ɢʷɯ
肬	*ɢʷɯ
沋	*ɢʷɯ
訧	*ɢʷɯ
忧	*ɢʷɯs
蚘	*ɢʷɯː

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yóu (you²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yù
• Min Nan (POJ): iû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ
    • Wade–Giles: yu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: you
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁴
    • Yale: yàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yù
    • Hakka Romanization System: iuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yiu²
    • IPA: /i̯u¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yù
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yiu²
    • IPA: /(j)i̯u¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iû
    • Tâi-lô: iû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɨu/▼

Rime
Character	尤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羽求切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦuw/
Li Rong	/ɣiu/
Wang Li	/ɣĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yóu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	尤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yóu
Middle Chinese	‹ hjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷə/
English	fault; even more
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	尤
Reading #	1/1
No.	15503
Phonetic component	尤
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	尤
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷɯ/
Notes	甲文象又（手）上加筆指疣

DefinitionsEdit

尤

1. especially, particularly
2. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

• 不怨不尤
• 以儆效尤 (yǐjǐngxiàoyóu)
• 勒尤 (lèyóu)
• 天生尤物
• 尤人
• 尤其 (yóuqí)
• 尤悔
• 尤態／尤态
• 尤有甚者
• 尤殢
• 尤物 (yóuwù)
• 尤甚 (yóushèn)
• 尤異／尤异 (yóuyì)

• 尤至
• 尤詬／尤诟
• 尤違／尤违
• 尤里西斯
• 尤雲殢雨／尤云殢雨
• 忍尤含詬／忍尤含诟
• 怨天尤人 (yuàntiān-yóurén)
• 怨尤
• 悔尤
• 愆尤
• 拔尤
• 效尤 (xiàoyóu)
• 殊豔尤態／殊艳尤态

• 殢雨尤雲／殢雨尤云
• 殢雲尤雨／殢云尤雨
• 淑尤
• 無恥之尤／无耻之尤
• 石尤風／石尤风
• 競相效尤／竞相效尤
• 群起效尤
• 蚩尤 (Chīyóu)
• 蚩尤戲／蚩尤戏
• 蚩尤旗
• 起而效尤
• 逢尤

ReferencesEdit

• “Query for 尤”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

尤

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. reasonable
2. just
3. natural
4. superb
5. outstanding
6. plausible

ReadingsEdit

• On (unclassified): ゆう (yū)
• Kun: とがめる (togameru), とが (toga), もっとも (mottomo)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

尤 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u)

1. especially, particularly

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

尤 (vưu)

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