喻

喻

See also: 喩

喻 U+55BB, 喻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BB ← 喺 [U+55BA] CJK Unified Ideographs 喼 → [U+55BC]

Translingual

Han character

喻 (radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人一弓 (ROMN), four-corner 6802₁, composition ⿰口俞)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 657, character 8
• Unihan data for U+55BB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		喻
variant forms		喩

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 *los) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 俞 (OC *l̥ʰus, *lo).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁶
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): ū / jī / lū / jū

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ru⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁶
    • Yale: yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ū
    • Tâi-lô: ū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: u
    • IPA (Xiamen): /u²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī
    • Tâi-lô: jī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ji
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑi²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lū
    • Tâi-lô: lū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lu³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lu⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jū
    • Tâi-lô: jū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ju
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zu²²/

Note:

• ū/jī - literary;
• lū/jū - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ru⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jŭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zu³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨo^H/▼

Rime
Character	喻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊戍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/jioH/
Shao Rongfen	/ioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆H/
Li Rong	/ioH/
Wang Li	/jĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lo-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*los/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	喻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ yuH ›
Old Chinese	/*lo-s/
English	understand; metaphor
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	喻
Reading #	1/1
No.	15880
Phonetic component	俞
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	裕
Old Chinese	/*los/
Notes	同諭

Definitions

喻

1. to inform; to notify
2. to understand
3. metaphor; analogy; example; like
4. A surname​.

Compounds

不可理喻 (bùkělǐyù) 不可言喻 (bùkě yán yù) 不知所喻 不言而喻 (bùyán'éryù) 借喻 告喻 呴喻 喻世明言 喻依 喻咀 (Yùzuǐ) 喻詞／喻词 喻體／喻体 嘔喻／呕喻

多歧援喻 妙喻 妙喻取譬 家喻戶曉／家喻户晓 (jiāyùhùxiǎo) 引喻失義／引喻失义 明喻 (míngyù) 暗喻 (ànyù) 比喻 (bǐyù) 比喻義／比喻义 理喻 (lǐyù) 略喻 百喻經／百喻经

直喻 罕譬而喻 自喻 舟水之喻 詭喻／诡喻 譬喻 (pìyù) 豆萁之喻 辭喻橫生／辞喻横生 遠引曲喻／远引曲喻 酒喻聖賢／酒喻圣贤 隱喻／隐喻 (yǐnyù) 難以言喻／难以言喻

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/

Definitions

喻

1. Same as 愉 (yú).

Compounds

喻家山

新喻 (Xīnyú)

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Japanese

Kanji

喻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆ (yu)
• Kun: さとす (satosu), さとる (satoru), たとえる (tatoeru)

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Korean

Hanja

喻 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喻 (dụ, dầu, dẫu, dỗ, nhủ, rủ, dẩu)

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