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

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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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōu (you¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡ
    • Wade–Giles: yu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iou
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau¹
    • Yale: yāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔiɪu/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*qrɯw/

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.

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Japanese

Kanji

呦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆう (いう, yuu), ゆ (yu), おう (あう, oo), よう (えう,yoo)
• Kun: むせぶ (musebu), さけぶ (sakebu)

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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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