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雩

雩

雩 U+96E9, 雩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96E9
← 雨
[U+96E8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 雪 →
[U+96EA]

Translingual

Han character

雩 (radical 173 雨+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一月一一尸 (MBMMS), four-corner 10727, composition ⿱⻗亏)

References

  • KangXi: page 1371, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42212
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1878, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4057, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+96E9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 雩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 雩
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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 雩 雩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 云 (35) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 羽俱切 況于切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨo/ /hɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦio/ /hio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣio/ /xio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuə̆/ /huə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ɣio/ /xio/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭu/ /xĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯u/ /xi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yú xū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 雩
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a/
English sacrifice for rain

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 雩 雩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15693 15717
Phonetic
component		 于 于
Rime
group		 魚 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 訏 于
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰʷla/ /*ɢʷla/

Definitions

雩

  1. offer sacrifices and pray for rain

Japanese

Kanji

雩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. offer sacrifice for rain

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. a shamanistic service to pray for rain

Vietnamese

Han character

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