萸

萸 U+8438, 萸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8438 ← 萷 [U+8437] CJK Unified Ideographs 萹 → [U+8439]

Translingual

Han character

萸 (radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹X人 (THXO), four-corner 4423₇, composition ⿱艹臾)

References

• KangXi: page 1043, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31356
• Dae Jaweon: page 1503, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3235, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8438

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		萸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (臾) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
萸	*lo
臾	*ɡruds, *lo
腴	*lo
諛	*lo
楰	*lo, *loʔ
庾	*loʔ
斞	*loʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴
    • Yale: yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨo/▼

Rime
Character	萸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊朱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/jio/
Shao Rongfen	/io/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆/
Li Rong	/io/
Wang Li	/jĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*lo/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	萸
Reading #	1/1
No.	15822
Phonetic component	臾
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	逾
Old Chinese	/*lo/

Definitions

萸

1. Only used in 茱萸 (zhūyú).

Compounds

• 吳茱萸／吴茱萸 (wúzhūyú)
• 山茱萸 (shānzhūyú)

• 茱萸 (zhūyú)
• 茱萸會／茱萸会

• 萸觴／萸觞
• 食茱萸

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Japanese

Kanji

萸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆ (yu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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