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喻

喻

喻 U+55BB, 喻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BB
← 喺
[U+55BA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喼 →
[U+55BC]
See also: 喩

Translingual

Han character

喻 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人一弓 (ROMN), four-corner 68021, composition ⿰口俞)

  1. metaphor, analogy
  2. example
  3. like

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
  • Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 657, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+55BB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 喻

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 喻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 羊戍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jioH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ioH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 喻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lo-s/
English understand; metaphor

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 喻
Reading # 1/1
No. 15880
Phonetic
component		 俞
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 裕
Old
Chinese		 /*los/
Notes 同諭

Definitions

喻

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Japanese

Kanji

喻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

喻 • ‎(yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喻 (dụ, dầu, dẫu, dỗ, nhủ, rủ, dẩu)

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