攸

攸 U+6538, 攸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6538 ← 攷 [U+6537] CJK Unified Ideographs 改 → [U+6539]

Translingual

Han character

攸 (radical 66, 攴+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人中人大 (OLOK), four-corner 2824₀, composition ⿲亻丨攵)

Descendants

• 修 脩 筱 條 㫍 䀺 跾 倏 儵 悠 鯈 𠤼 絛 鋚

References

• KangXi: page 468, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13113
• Dae Jaweon: page 816, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 132, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6538

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		攸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 攸
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
絛	*l̥ʰɯːw
窱	*ʔl'ɯːwʔ, *l̥ʰɯːws
蓧	*l̥ʰɯːw, *l'ɯːwɢ
條	*l'ɯːw
鋚	*l'ɯːw
鞗	*l'ɯːw
樤	*l'ɯːw
鰷	*l'ɯːw
莜	*l'ɯːws
翛	*slɯːw, *hljɯwɢ
筱	*slɯːwʔ
篠	*slɯːwʔ
修	*slɯw
脩	*slɯw
樇	*slɯw
滫	*slɯwʔ
悠	*lɯw
攸	*lɯw
浟	*lɯw
蓨	*l̥ʰɯːwɢ
滌	*l'ɯːwɢ
儵	*hljɯwɢ
倐	*hljɯwɢ
倏	*hljɯwɢ
虪	*hljɯwɢ

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 人 + 攴.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōu (you¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): iu / iû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hiun¹ / hiu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡ
    • Wade–Giles: yu1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iou
    • Tongyong Pinyin: you
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁴
    • Yale: yàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iu / iû
    • Tâi-lô: iu / iû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iw, iuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iu⁴⁴/, /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iu³³/, /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu⁴⁴/, /iu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu⁴⁴/, /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu⁴⁴/, /iu²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hiun¹ / hiu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hiuⁿ / hiu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hĩũ³³/, /hiu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨu/

Rime
Character	攸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以周切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/jiu/
Shao Rongfen	/iəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juw/
Li Rong	/iu/
Wang Li	/jĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yóu

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*liw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lɯw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	攸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yōu
Middle Chinese	‹ yuw ›
Old Chinese	/*liw/
English	place where
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	攸
Reading #	1/1
No.	15480
Phonetic component	攸
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	猷
Old Chinese	/*lɯw/

Definitions

攸

1. distant, far
2. adverbial prefix
3. (loanword, Taiwan) yocto- (SI unit prefix)

See also

SI prefix
Last
介/仄	攸/幺

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Japanese

Kanji

攸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. relaxed, at ease
2. place

Readings

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
• Kun: ところ (tokoro, 攸)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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See also

• 修 - 悠 - 倏 - 脩 - 條 - 筱

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Vietnamese

Han character

攸 (du, đu)

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