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育

育

See also: 毓

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

Han character

育 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈月 (YIB), four-corner 00227, composition ⿱𠫓月)

  1. produce, give birth to
  2. educate

Related characters

See also

  • 徹 (撤 轍) (etymologically unrelated, common simplification)

References

  • KangXi: page 976, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29318
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1427, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2052, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+80B2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 育

Glyph origin

Pictogram (象形) – a woman giving birth. Originally a woman squatting on left, with child head down on right, with lines (川) below head (hair, coming out). Etymology clearer in alternative form 毓 (woman 母 on left, upside down child 㐬 on right; the top part is an abstracted body with a head at the bottom; compare 充).

Significantly simplified and abstracted in large seal and seal script: woman eliminated, lines 川 re-interpreted as ribs (肉, ⺼), thence simplified to 月.

Historical forms of the character 育
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (育) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
育 *luɡ
毓 *luɡ
棛 *luɡ
錥 *luɡ
焴 *luɡ
淯 *luɡ
蜟 *luɡ
堉 *luɡ
逳 *luɡ
蘛 *luɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 育
Mandarin Beijing /y⁵¹/
Harbin /y⁵³/
Tianjin /y⁵³/
Jinan /y²¹/
Qingdao /y⁴²/
Zhengzhou /y³¹²/
Xi'an /y⁴⁴/
Xining /y²¹³/
Yinchuan /y¹³/
Lanzhou /y¹³/
Ürümqi /y²¹³/
Wuhan /iəu²¹³/
Chengdu /yo³¹/
/y³¹/
Guiyang /iu²¹/
Kunming /iu³¹/
Nanjing /ʐuʔ⁵/
Hefei /yəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /yəʔ²/
Pingyao /yʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /yəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioʔ¹/
/ɦyɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /ioʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /ɦioʔ²/
Wenzhou /j̠ɤu²¹³/
Hui Shexian /iuʔ²¹/
Tunxi /iu⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ʐəu²⁴/
Xiangtan /iəɯ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ȵiuʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /iuk̚¹/
Taoyuan /ʒɔk̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jok̚²/
Nanning /juk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /juk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iɔk̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /yʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /y²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /iok̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zok̚⁵/
Rime
Character 育
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 屋 (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 余六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /iuk̚/
Wang
Li		 /jĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 育
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yuwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-quk/
English breed, produce

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 育
Reading # 1/1
No. 15984
Phonetic
component		 育
Rime
group		 覺
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 育
Old
Chinese		 /*luɡ/
Notes 說文肉聲非，實毓右隸變

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育

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

育

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

育 • ‎(yuk) (hangeul 육, revised yuk, McCune-Reischauer yuk, Yale yuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

育 (dục)

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