Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

游 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水卜尸木 (EYSD), four-corner 3814₇)

References

• KangXi: page 635, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17792
• Dae Jaweon: page 1042, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1684, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6E38

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lu) : semantic 㫃 + phonetic 汓 ‎(OC *lju).

Pronunciation

Definitions

游

1. to swim

   他游得最遠。 / 他游得最远。  ―  Tā yóu dé zuì yuǎn.  ―  He swam the furthest.

   他們一起游向那艘船。 [MSC, trad.]

   他们一起游向那艘船。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tāmen yīqǐ yóu xiàng nà sōu chuán. [Pinyin]

   Together they swam to the ship.

2. reach; part of a river

   上游  ―  shàngyóu  ―  upper reach, upstream

   下游  ―  xiàyóu  ―  lower reach, downstream

3. A surname​.
4. Alternative form of 遊 (all senses).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Float
2. Swim

Readings

• On: ゆう (yū), りゅう (ryū)
• Kun: およぐ (oyogu), あそぶ (asobu), あそび (asobi)
• equivalent: 遊

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

游 (du)

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