Chinese

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worried to fear
trad. (憂懼)
simp. (忧惧)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (30)
Final () (136) (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter 'juw gjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨu/ /ɡɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔiu/ /ɡioH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiəu/ /ɡioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔuw/ /guə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ʔiu/ /ɡioH/
Wang
Li
/ĭəu/ /ɡĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ə̯u/ /gi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jau1 geoi6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yōu
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjuw › ‹ gjuH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔ(r)u/ /*[ɡ]ʷ(r)a(k)-s/
English grief, grieved fear (v.)

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 15493 7151
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qu/ /*ɡʷas/

Adjective

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憂懼

  1. (literary) anxious and apprehensive