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臾

臾

Translingual

Han character

臾 (radical 134 臼+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹X人 (HXO), four-corner 77237)

  1. moment, instant, short while

References

  • KangXi: page 1003, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30178
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1459, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3037, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+81FE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 臾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 臾
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (臾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
萸 *lo
臾 *ɡruds, *lo
腴 *lo
諛 *lo
楰 *lo, *loʔ
庾 *loʔ
斞 *loʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 臾 臾
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 脂 (18)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III Chongniu III
Fanqie 羊朱切 求位切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨo/ /ɡˠiuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jio/ /ɡʷᵚiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /io/ /ɡiuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juə̆/ /gjwiH/
Li
Rong		 /io/ /ɡjuiH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭu/ /ɡwiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯u/ /gwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yú guì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 臾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yu ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ](r)o/
English pull, drag

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 臾 臾
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4735 15823
Phonetic
component		 貴 臾
Rime
group		 隊 侯
Rime
subdivision		 2 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 匱 逾
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡruds/ /*lo/
Notes 古文蕢

Definitions

臾

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Compounds

  • 甌臾／瓯臾
  • 縱臾／纵臾

References

Japanese

Kanji

臾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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