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U+5112, 儒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5112

[U+5111]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5113]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +14, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人一月月 (OMBB), four-corner 21227, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 119, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1220
  • Dae Jaweon: page 253, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 230, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5112

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character



References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*noː
*noː
*noːs, *njoʔ, *njos, *njul, *njod
*noːs
*noːls, *njo
*noːls
*sno
*sno, *njo
*sno
*njo
*njo, *noːn
*njo
*njo
*njo
*njo
*njo
*njo
*njo, *njoʔ
*njo
*njos

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʐu³⁵/
Harbin /lu²¹³/
/ʐu²¹³/
Tianjin /ʐu⁴⁵/
Jinan /lu⁵⁵/
Qingdao /y⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʐu⁴²/
Xi'an /vu²⁴/
Xining /v̩²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʐu⁵³/
Lanzhou /vu⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʐu⁵¹/
/vu⁵¹/
Wuhan /y²¹³/
Chengdu /zu³¹/
Guiyang /zu²¹/
Kunming /ʐu²¹²/
Nanjing /ʐu²⁴/
Hefei /ʐu²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /zu⁵³/
Pingyao /zz̩ʷ¹³/
Hohhot /ʐu⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /zz̩²³/
Suzhou /zz̩ʷ¹³/
Hangzhou /zz̩ʷ²¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩³¹/
Hui Shexian /y⁴⁴/
Tunxi /y⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /y¹³/
Xiangtan /y¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ɵ⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /i¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʒï¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jy²¹/
Nanning /y²¹/
Hong Kong /jy²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lu³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /y⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /y²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /zu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zu³¹/
/zi³¹/

Definitions

  1. scholar
  2. Confucianism

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(yu) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nho, nhu, nhô)

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