尤

See also: 尢 and ㄤ

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Historical forms of the character 尤
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han characterEdit

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

1. especially, particularly
2. a surname

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

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, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: you
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁴
    • Yale: yàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴
    • 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 (Taipei): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu¹³/

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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

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CompoundsEdit

• 尤其 (yóuqí)

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)

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ReadingsEdit

• On: 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)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

尤 (vưu)

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