悠

悠	U+60A0, 悠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60A0

← 悟
[U+609F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

悡 →
[U+60A1]

Translingual

Han character

悠 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人大心 (OKP), four-corner 2833₄, composition ⿱攸心)

Derived characters

滺

References

KangXi: page 388, character 7

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10681

Dae Jaweon: page 720, character 22

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2300, character 15

Unihan data for U+60A0

Chinese

trad.		悠
simp. ^#		悠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (攸) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
絛	*l̥ʰɯːw
窱	ʔl'ɯːwʔ, l̥ʰɯːws
蓧	l̥ʰɯːw, l'ɯːwɢ
條	*l'ɯːw
鋚	*l'ɯːw
鞗	*l'ɯːw
樤	*l'ɯːw
鰷	*l'ɯːw
莜	*l'ɯːws
翛	slɯːw, hljɯwɢ
筱	*slɯːwʔ
篠	*slɯːwʔ
修	*slɯw
脩	*slɯw
樇	*slɯw
滫	*slɯwʔ
悠	*lɯw
攸	*lɯw
浟	*lɯw
蓨	*l̥ʰɯːwɢ
滌	*l'ɯːwɢ
儵	*hljɯwɢ
倐	*hljɯwɢ
倏	*hljɯwɢ
虪	*hljɯwɢ

Etymology

Uncertain. Compare with Burmese ယော်ယမ်း (yauyam:, “to yearn for a distant thing”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yōu (you¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yû
Min Dong (BUC): iù
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): iu
(Teochew, Peng'im): hiun¹ / hiu¹
Wu (Wiktionary): ieu (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yōu
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: you
  - Wade–Giles: yu¹
  - Yale: yōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iou
  - Palladius: ю (ju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jau⁴
  - Yale: yàuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yû
  - Hakka Romanization System: iu´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yiu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /i̯u²⁴/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yû
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iu´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yiu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯u²⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: iù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ieu⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iu
  - Tâi-lô: iu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iw
  - IPA (Xiamen): /iu⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iu³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /iu⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hiun¹ / hiu¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hiuⁿ / hiu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hĩũ³³/, /hiu³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: ieu (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iɜ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /jɨu/

Rime
Character	悠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以周切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/jiu/
Shao Rongfen	/iəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juw/
Li Rong	/iu/
Wang Li	/jĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jau⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*liw/
(Zhengzhang): /*lɯw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	悠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yōu
Middle Chinese	‹ yuw ›
Old Chinese	/*liw/
English	long-brooding
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	悠
Reading #	1/1
No.	15479
Phonetic component	攸
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	猷
Old Chinese	/*lɯw/

Definitions

悠

remote; distant
leisurely
to swing

Compounds

悠久 (yōujiǔ)
悠停
悠哉 (yōuzāi)
悠哉悠哉 (yōuzāiyōuzāi)
悠忽
悠思
悠悠 (yōuyōu)
悠悠忽忽
悠然 (yōurán)
悠然神往
悠然自得
悠著
悠邈

慢悠悠 (mànyōuyōu)
晃悠 (huàngyou)
晃晃悠悠 (huànghuangyōuyōu)
悠悠盪盪／悠悠荡荡
悠悠蕩蕩／悠悠荡荡
悠悠閒閒／悠悠闲闲
悠揚／悠扬 (yōuyáng)
悠然自適／悠然自适
悠蕩／悠荡 (yōudàng)
悠謬／悠谬
悠遊／悠游
悠遠／悠远 (yōuyuǎn)
悠長／悠长 (yōucháng)

悠閒／悠闲 (yōuxián)
悠閒自在／悠闲自在
悠闇／悠暗
悠陽／悠阳
悠颺／悠飏
篤悠悠／笃悠悠
蕩悠悠／荡悠悠
蕩蕩悠悠／荡荡悠悠
謬悠之說／谬悠之说
顫悠／颤悠 (chànyou)
顫悠悠／颤悠悠 (chànyōuyōu)
飄悠／飘悠

Japanese

Kanji

悠

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

permanence

Readings

Go-on: ゆう (yū, Jōyō)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
Kan-on: ゆう (yū, Jōyō)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
Kun: とおい (tōi, 悠い); はるか (haruka, 悠か)
Nanori: ちか (chika); ちかし (chikashi); はるか (haruka); ひさ (hisa); ひさし (hisashi); ゆ (yu)

Proper noun

悠(ゆう) • (Yū)

a male given name

Proper noun

悠(はるか) • (Haruka)

a female given name

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

悠: Hán Nôm readings: du, đu

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