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鬱

鬱

See also: 欝 and 郁

Translingual

Alternative forms

  • 郁 (Simplified Chinese)
  • 鬰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (鬱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鬱 *qud
欝 *qud
灪 *qud
爩 *qud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qud) : semantic 林 + phonetic 𩰪.

Han character

鬱 (radical 192 鬯+19, 29 strokes, cangjie input 木木月山竹 (DDBUH), four-corner 44722, composition ⿳⿲木缶木冖⿰鬯彡)

References

  • KangXi: page 1458, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45671
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1990, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 858, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+9B31

Chinese

trad. 鬱
simp. 郁

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鬱
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 物 (60)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 紆物切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔɨut̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔiut̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔut̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiuət̚/
Wang
Li		 /ĭuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯uət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鬱
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjut ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qut/
English blocked; anxious

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 鬱
Reading # 1/1
No. 16057
Phonetic
component		 鬱
Rime
group		 物
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 鬱
Old
Chinese		 /*qud/

Definitions

鬱

  1. luxuriant
  2. dense, thick
  3. moody

Compounds

  • 鬱鬱／郁郁 (yùyù)
  • 鬱鬱寡歡／郁郁寡欢
  • 鬱鬱蔥蔥／郁郁葱葱

Japanese

Kanji

鬱

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. depression, gloom, melancholy

Readings

Compounds

Trivia

鬱 has, at 29 strokes, the most strokes of any kanji in the jōyō kanji list or kanji kentei level pre-1.[1] The next highest kanji in the jōyō list is 鑑, at 23 strokes.

References

  1. ↑ Crazy kanji: what’s the highest stroke count?, Nihonshock, 2009 Oct 22

Korean

Hanja

鬱 • ‎(ul) (hangeul 울, revised ul, McCune-Reischauer ul, Yale wul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鬱 (uất)

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