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愉

愉

Translingual

Han character

愉 (radical 61 心+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 心人一弓 (POMN), four-corner 98021, composition ⿰忄俞)

References

  • KangXi: page 394, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10905
  • Dae Jaweon: page 730, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2330, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6109

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 愉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (俞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
褕 *low, *lo
偷 *l̥ʰoː
媮 *l̥ʰoː, *lo
鍮 *l̥ʰoː
緰 *l'oː, *slo
牏 *l'oː, *l'os, *lo
揄 *l'oː, *l'oːʔ, *lu, *lo
窬 *l'oː, *l'oːs, *lo
歈 *l'oː, *lo
俞 *l̥ʰus, *lo
隃 *slo, *hljo, *hljos, *lo
毹 *sro
輸 *hljo, *hljos
鄃 *hljo, *lo
腧 *hljos
逾 *lo
榆 *lo
愉 *lo
渝 *lo
瑜 *lo
蕍 *lo
覦 *lo, *los
蝓 *lo
踰 *lo
崳 *lo
羭 *lo
堬 *lo
瘉 *lo, *loʔ
萮 *lo
騟 *lo
愈 *loʔ
貐 *loʔ
喻 *los
諭 *los

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lo) : semantic 心 + phonetic 俞 ‎(OC *l̥ʰus, *lo).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 愉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 羊朱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /io/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juə̆/
Li
Rong		 /io/
Wang
Li		 /jĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 愉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yu ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lo/
English enjoy

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 愉
Reading # 1/1
No. 15856
Phonetic
component		 俞
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 逾
Old
Chinese		 /*lo/

Definitions

愉

  1. happy; pleased; delightful

Compounds

  • 勝任愉快／胜任愉快
  • 夷愉
  • 心曠神愉／心旷神愉
  • 恬愉
  • 愉逸
  • 敷愉
  • 歡愉／欢愉

Japanese

Kanji

愉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. pleasure

Readings

Korean

Hanja

愉 • ‎(yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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