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遊

See also: 游
遊 U+904A, 遊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-904A
← 遉
[U+9049] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 運 →
[U+904B]

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

遊 (radical 162, 辵+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜卜尸木 (YYSD), four-corner 38304, composition ⿺辶斿)

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 1261, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38994
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1751, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3861, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+904A

ChineseEdit

trad. 遊/游
simp. 游

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (斿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
游 *lu
遊 *lu
蝣 *lu
斿 *lu

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lu): semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 斿 (OC *lu).

EtymologyEdit

From Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Tibetan [script needed] (rgyu.ba, “to go, walk, move, wander”), Lepcha yŭ (yŭ), Rawang yɨ (“to flow”) (Schuessler, 2007).

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 遊
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 遊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yóu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[N-]ru/
English wander about

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 遊
Reading # 1/1
No. 15546
Phonetic
component 		斿
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		猷
Old
Chinese 		/*lu/
Notes 同遊

DefinitionsEdit

遊

  1. to travel; to tour
    遊客 / 游客  ―  yóukè  ―  traveler, tourist
    旅遊 / 旅游  ―  lǚyóu  ―  trip, travel
  2. to wander; to roam
    遊走 / 游走  ―  yóuzǒu  ―  wandering, to migrate
    遊民 / 游民  ―  yóumín  ―  vagrant, vagabond
    遊蕩 / 游荡  ―  yóudàng  ―  to roam about
  3. to play
    遊玩 / 游玩  ―  yóuwán  ―  to play
  4. to walk
    遊行 / 游行  ―  yóuxíng  ―  to march
  5. to associate with, to have contact with
    交遊 / 交游  ―  jiāoyóu  ―  to have friendly relationships
  6. to persuade, to convince
    遊說 / 游说  ―  yóushuì  ―  to persuade
  7. to move freely
    遊刃有餘 / 游刃有余  ―  yóurènyǒuyú  ―  to do something skillfully and easily
  8. Alternative form of 游 (yóu, “to swim”).

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 遊

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

遊

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to play

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

遊 (du)

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