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Translingual

Han character

(radical 114 +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.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷaʔ, *kʰʷaʔ
*kʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
*kʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
*kʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
*kʰʷaʔ
*ɢʷaʔ
*ɢʷaʔ
*ɢʷaʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (35)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 15960
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷaʔ/

Definitions

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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

(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

(hiragana , romaji U)

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

External links


Korean

Hanja

(u) (hangeul , 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

()

  • 夏禹 Hạ Vũ
  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

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