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御

See also: 禦
御 U+5FA1, 御
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FA1
← 徠
[U+5FA0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 徢 →
[U+5FA2]

Translingual

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Han character

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御 (Kangxi radical 60, 彳+8 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 彳+9 in mainland China and Japanese, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 竹人人一中 (HOOML), four-corner 27220, composition ⿰彳卸)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 368, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10157
  • Dae Jaweon: page 693, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 832, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+5FA1

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (午) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卸 *sŋjaːs
汻 *hŋaːŋʔ
滸 *hŋaːʔ
午 *ŋaːʔ
仵 *ŋaːʔ
旿 *ŋaːʔ
忤 *ŋaːs
迕 *ŋaːs
杵 *ŋ̊ʰjaʔ
籞 *ŋaʔ
蘌 *ŋaʔ
篽 *ŋaʔ
禦 *ŋaʔ, *ŋas
許 *hŋaʔ
御 *ŋas

Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋas): phonetic 午 (OC *ŋaːʔ, “pestle”) + semantic 卩 (“kneeling person”) – utilize; govern. Bronze inscriptions added 彳 and 止 to emphasize action.

Etymology 1

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trad. 御
simp. # 御
alternative forms 𢕜
𢓷
馭／驭
䢩
䘘

Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) compared 御 to Burmese မောင်း (maung:, “drive away, threaten”) and မောင်း (maung:, “driving”).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • ghe6 - "to ride";
  • ghe7 - "imperial".
Rime
Character 御
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 牛倨切
Baxter ngjoH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋɨʌH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋiɔH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋiɔH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋɨə̆H/
Li
Rong 		/ŋiɔH/
Wang
Li 		/ŋĭoH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ŋi̯woH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jyu6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 御 御
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yù yù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ngjoX › ‹ ngjoH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m-[qʰ](r)aʔ/ /*[ŋ](r)a-s/
English ward off; withstand drive a chariot (loan)

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 御
Reading # 1/1
No. 13181
Phonetic
component 		午
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		御
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋas/

Definitions

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御

  1. (prefix) royal, imperial
  2. to manage; to govern; to control
  3. to drive a chariot or carriage; to ride (on an animal or a vehicle drawn by animals)
  4. driver of a carriage
  5. Alternative form of 禦 (yù, “to defend against”)

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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御

  1. (literary, obsolete) to meet, greet and welcome (someone)
    alt. forms: 迓 (yà)

Etymology 3

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For pronunciation and definitions of 御 – see 禦 (“to defend”).
(This character is the simplified form of 禦).
Notes:

Japanese

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Kanji

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御

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. an honorific prefix, indicates respect, your[1]
  2. royal, imperial, godly
  3. control
  4. govern
  5. protect

Readings

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As variant kanji of 禦:

Compounds

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Compounds

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
御
お
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/oɴ/ → /o/

Shift from on- below.[2][3]

Already apparent since the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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Prefix

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御(お) • (o-) 

  1. indicates that the [word] is honorific; often used to indicate that the [word] belongs or is related to the listener (as opposed to the speaker)
Usage notes
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See also: Honorific speech in Japanese

Not to be confused with 大 (ō-, “great”), which is a less-commonly used prefix.

Almost exclusively written in hiragana, to disambiguate with the heteronyms below.

Prefixed to the native Japanese words, as in 御水 (o-mizu, “water”) (words read with kun'yomi). However, there are numerous exceptions such as お弁当 (o-bentō) and お電話 (o-denwa). In old use, prefixed short women's names regardless of the type of reading, for example お菊 (o-Kiku), おしん (o-Shin), お仙 (o-Sen), お妙 (o-Tae), etc. For 外来語 (gairaigo, “(non-Chinese) foreign loan words”), this prefix is seldom used, but somewhat preferred in the jargon of some kinds of industry, as in おビール (o-bīru, “beer”).

Usage varies between speakers, situations, and gender – more polite speech, especially by women, features more use of this prefix, while blunt speech, especially by men, uses it less or not at all (words where the prefix has become mandatory are replaced by blunter terms that do not have the prefix). In rare cases a prefixed term has become impolite, as in 御前 (omae, “you (familiar or derogatory)”).

Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
御
おん
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/oɸomʉ/ → /owomʉ/ → /oːɴ/ → /oɴ/

Early-Late Middle Japanese shift from ōn- below.[2]

Pronunciation

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Prefix

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御(おん) • (on-) 

  1. indicates that the [word] is honorific; often used to indicate that the [word] belongs or is related to the listener (as opposed to the speaker)
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Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
御
おおん
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
大御
Kanji in this term
御
おおむ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
大御

⟨opomi1⟩ → */opomʲɨ/*/əpəmʲɨ/ → /oɸomʉ/ → /owoɴ/ → /oːɴ/

First attested in the Wamyō Ruijushō (938 CE), as man'yōgana form 於保无 (opomu- → ōmu-) within 於保无太加良 (opomutakara → ōmutakara, “people”, as a kun reading of 人民).

Shift from Old Japanese 大御 (⟨opomi1⟩ → ōmi-, prefix of maximum honorific).

Both ōmu- and ōn- readings likely existed in free variation until the development of the ん (n) grapheme.

Pronunciation

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Prefix

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御(おおん) or 御(おおむ) • (ōn- or ōmu-) ←おほん (ofon-) or おほむ (ofomu-)?

  1. (obsolete) indicates that the [word] is honorific; often used to indicate that the [word] belongs or is related to the listener (as opposed to the speaker)
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Etymology 4

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Kanji in this term
御
み
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
美
深

⟨mi1⟩ → */mʲi/ → /mi/

From Old Japanese.

Cognate with 霊, 神 (mi, “spirit, god”), as this prefix was originally used to refer to gods and other spiritually important things.

Pronunciation

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Prefix

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御(み) • (mi-) 

  1. (honorific, archaic) added to gods and other spiritually important things
  2. (honorific, archaic) added to nouns to indicate godlike respect
  3. 美, 深: (honorific, archaic) added to placenames to emphasize beauty
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Usage notes

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See also: Honorific speech in Japanese

Primarily for the religious words, pertaining to gods or the emperor, as in 御輿 (mikoshi, “portable shrine”). However, in this context it is often replaced by 神 ("god", also pronounced mi-), and then a further 御 (​o-) may be added, as in 御神輿 (o-mikoshi). The mi- prefix also became merged into other kanji, as in 宮 (miya, “imperial palace”).

Etymology 5

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Kanji in this term
御
ご
Grade: S
goon

From Middle Chinese 御 (MC ngjoH).

The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

Pronunciation

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Prefix

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御(ご) • (go-) 

  1. indicates that the [word] is honorific; often used to indicate that the [word] belongs or is related to the listener (as opposed to the speaker)
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See also: Honorific speech in Japanese

Prefixed to the Sino-Japanese words, as in 御主人 (goshujin, “husband”).

While in general this prefix is optional, in many cases it is so commonly used that the base word can no longer be used in isolation, as in 御飯 (gohan, “rice”) – the form ×飯 (*han) is not used alone, though it can be used as parts of compounds (such as 炊飯, suihan, “rice cooking”), and the character can be read in isolation as meshi.

It may also be used with modern foreign borrowings.

本日(ほんじつ)はニコニコ動画(どうが)に御(ご)アクセス頂(いただ)き、ありがとうございます。
Honjitsu wa Nikoniko Dōga ni go-akusesu-itadaki, arigatō gozaimasu.
Thank you for accessing Niconico today.

ご (go-) also appears with a limited number of native words such as ごゆっくり (go-yukkuri) and ごもっとも (go-mottomo).

Derived terms
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Etymology 6

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Kanji in this term
御
ご
Grade: S
goon

Short form of 御前 (gozen, “noble person”).

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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御(ご) • (-go) 

  1. (honorific) indicates that the [word] is familiar to the speaker and slightly honorific
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Noun

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御(ご) • (go) 

  1. (obsolete, archaic, honorific) a lady
    suffixed to the given name, via genitive particle の (no):
    伊(い)勢(せ)の御(ご) ― Ise no Go ― Lady Ise
  2. (obsolete, archaic, honorific) form of address to a woman or a court lady: my Lady
    used in the plural form 御達 (gotachi)
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Etymology 7

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Kanji in this term
御
ぎょ
Grade: S
kan'on
Alternative spelling
馭

From Middle Chinese 御 (MC ngjoH).

The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

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Noun

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御(ぎょ) • (gyo) 

  1. equestrianism, horseriding
  2. a coachman
  3. (by extension) serving nearby (to an aristocrat, etc.)
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Affix

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御(ぎょ) • (gyo) 

  1. control (a machine, etc.)
  2. govern, rule
  3. servant
  4. Alternative spelling of 禦 (gyo): defend, protect

Etymology 8

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Kanji in this term
御
ぎょ
Grade: S
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 御 (MC ngjoH).

The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

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Prefix

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御(ぎょ) • (gyo-) 

  1. prefixed to make an honorific kanji compound, especially used to indicate that the [word] belongs or is related to the emperor and/or the equivalents
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Suffix

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御(ぎょ) • (-gyo) 

  1. suffixed to make an honorific kanji compound which means the action belongs or is related to the emperor and/or the equivalents
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References

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  1. ^ “御”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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御 • (eo, a) (hangeul 어, 아, revised eo, a, McCune–Reischauer ŏ, a, Yale e, a)

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Old Japanese

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Etymology

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Cognate with 霊, 神 (mi1, “spirit, god”), as this prefix was originally used to refer to gods and other spiritually important things.

Prefix

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御 (mi1-) (kana み)

  1. (honorific) added to gods and other spiritually important things
  2. (honorific) added to nouns to indicate godlike respect
  3. (honorific) added to placenames to emphasize beauty

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Japanese: 御, 美, 深 (mi-)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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御: Hán Nôm readings: ngự, ngợ, ngừ, ngừa

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