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宇

宇

Translingual

Han character

宇 (radical 40 宀+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十一木 (JMD), four-corner 30401, composition ⿱宀于)

  1. house
  2. building, structure
  3. eaves
  4. universe

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 282, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7067
  • Dae Jaweon: page 551, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 911, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5B87

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 宇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (于) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
侉 *qaːls
夸 *kʰʷraː
姱 *kʰʷraː
胯 *kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
跨 *kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːʔ, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
誇 *kʰʷraː
垮 *kʰʷraːʔ
銙 *kʰʷraːʔ
骻 *kʰʷraːʔ
咵 *kʰʷraːʔ
釫 *ɢʷraː, *qʷaː
摦 *ɡʷraːs
鮬 *pɢʷaː, *kʰʷaː
嶀 *qʰʷl'aː
扝 *kʰʷaː, *qʷaː
刳 *kʰʷaː
郀 *kʰʷaː
挎 *kʰʷaː
袴 *kʰʷaːs
絝 *kʰʷaːs
褲 *kʰʷaːs
恗 *qʰaː
洿 *ɡʷaːʔ, *qʷaː
瓠 *ɡʷlaː, *ɡʷlaːs
鄠 *ɢʷlaːʔ
污 *qʷaː, *qʷaːs
杇 *qʷaː
圬 *qʷaː
鴮 *qʷaː
盓 *qʷaː
汙 *qʷaːs, *ɢʷa
樗 *qʰʷl'a
摴 *qʰʷl'a
荂 *pqʰʷa, *qʰʷa
雩 *qʰʷla, *ɢʷla
吁 *qʰʷa, *ɢʷas
盱 *qʰʷa
訏 *qʰʷa
扜 *qʰʷa, *qʷa
旴 *qʰʷa
冔 *qʰʷaʔ
紆 *qʷa
陓 *qʷa
迂 *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa
虶 *qʷa
于 *ɢʷa
盂 *ɢʷa
竽 *ɢʷa
邘 *ɢʷa
玗 *ɢʷa
芋 *ɢʷa, *ɢʷas
杅 *ɢʷa
釪 *ɢʷa
骬 *ɢʷa
謣 *ɢʷla
宇 *ɢʷaʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 宇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 王矩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦioX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ɣioX/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 宇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ/
English eaves

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 宇
Reading # 1/1
No. 15719
Phonetic
component		 于
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 羽
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷaʔ/

Definitions

宇

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

宇

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. eaves

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

宇 ‎(hiragana さかい, romaji Sakai)

  1. A female given name

Korean

Hanja

宇 • ‎(u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宇 (vũ, võ, thủy)

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