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呦

呦

呦 U+5466, 呦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5466
← 呥
[U+5465] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 呧 →
[U+5467]

Translingual

Han character

呦 (radical 30 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口女戈尸 (RVIS), four-corner 64027, composition ⿰口幼)

  1. the bleating of the deer

References

  • KangXi: page 181, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3437
  • Dae Jaweon: page 400, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 610, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5466

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 呦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (幼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
黝 *qliw, *qrɯwʔ
坳 *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws
軪 *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws
眑 *qrɯːw, *qrɯwʔ
拗 *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws
鴢 *qrɯːwʔ, *qɯːwʔ
靿 *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws
狕 *qrɯːwʔ
袎 *qrɯːws
怮 *qɯːw, *qrɯw, *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ
窈 *qiːwʔ
苭 *qɯːwʔ
泑 *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ
呦 *qrɯw
蚴 *qrɯwʔ
幼 *qrɯws

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 呦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 幽 (138)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於虯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔiɪu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔɨu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔieu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjiw/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiĕu/
Wang
Li		 /iəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yōu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 呦
Reading # 1/1
No. 15639
Phonetic
component		 幼
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 幽
Old
Chinese		 /*qrɯw/

Definitions

呦

  1. an expression of surprise or sudden awareness
    呦！你怎麼也來了？ / 呦！你怎么也来了？  ―  Yōu! Nǐ zěnme yě lái le?  ―  Hey! Fancy seeing you here.
    呦，飯糊了！ / 呦，饭糊了！  ―  Yōu, fàn hú le!  ―  Oh no, the rice is burnt.

Japanese

Kanji

呦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

呦 • ‎(yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

呦 (u, ạo, ao, ào)

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