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禹

禹

Translingual

Han character

禹 (radical 114 禸+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹中月戈 (HLBI), four-corner 20427)

  1. Yu the Great, legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty

References

  • KangXi: page 848, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24885
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1269, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 39, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+79B9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 禹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 禹
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (禹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
踽 *kʷaʔ, *kʰʷaʔ
萭 *kʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
聥 *kʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
楀 *kʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
齲 *kʰʷaʔ
禹 *ɢʷaʔ
瑀 *ɢʷaʔ
鄅 *ɢʷaʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 禹
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 禹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ/
English insect; proper name

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 禹
Reading # 1/1
No. 15960
Phonetic
component		 禹
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 羽
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷaʔ/

Definitions

禹

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Compounds

  • 伯禹
  • 劉禹錫／刘禹锡
  • 夏禹
  • 大禹 (Dàyǔ)
  • 大禹嶺／大禹岭
  • 大禹治水 (Dàyǔ zhìshuǐ)
  • 王禹偁
  • 禹步
  • 禹王臺／禹王台
  • 禹甸
  • 禹穴
  • 禹行舜趨／禹行舜趋
  • 禹貢／禹贡
  • 禹跡／禹迹
  • 禹餘糧／禹余粮
  • 貢禹／贡禹
  • 貢禹彈冠／贡禹弹冠

References

Japanese

Kanji

禹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Name of a Xia Dynasty emperor in ancient China: Emperor Yŭ, Yŭ the Great, or Dà Yŭ.

Readings

Compounds

  • 禹域 (ういき) ‎(uiki)
  • 禹穴 (うけつ) ‎(uketsu)
  • 禹行舜趨 (うこうしゅんすう) ‎(ukōshunsū)
  • 禹貢 (うこう) ‎(ukō)
  • 禹歩 (うほ) ‎(uho)
  • 禹余糧 (うよりょう) ‎(uyoryō)

Etymology

From Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

禹 ‎(hiragana う, romaji U)

  1. Yu the Great, legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty in ancient China

External links

Korean

Hanja

禹 • ‎(u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)

  1. (성씨) a surname
  2. (大禹) Yu the Great
  3. (임금) king
  4. (벌레) worm
  5. (곡척) steel square

Usage notes

ko:w: 우 (하나라) #우의 치수사업
  • 禹라는 문자는 본래 도마뱀이나 악어, 용의 모습을 그린 상형문자로, 우의 기원은 황하에 살던 물의 신이라고 보기도 한다.[출처 필요]
우 임금 禹(우)
김경일, 한자교실, 바다출판사, 1999.
  • 더듬이와 꼬리가 긴 곤충 종류의 상형문. 아마도 토템 대상인 듯하다. 역사가 긴 부족.

Vietnamese

Han character

禹 (vũ)

  • 夏禹 Hạ Vũ
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References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999

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