愈

愈

See also: 癒 and 瘉

愈 U+6108, 愈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6108 ← 愇 [U+6107] CJK Unified Ideographs 愉 → [U+6109]

Translingual

Han character

愈 (radical 61, 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人一月心 (OMBP), four-corner 8033₂, composition ⿱俞心(GHTV) or ⿱兪心(JK))

References

• KangXi: page 394, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10904
• Dae Jaweon: page 730, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2322, character 15
• Unihan data for U+6108

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		愈

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

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁶
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): lú / jú / jí / ū / ú

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ru²

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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: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Kinmen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lú
    • Tâi-lô: lú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: luo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kinmen): /lu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jú
    • Tâi-lô: jú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: juo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jí
    • Tâi-lô: jí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jie
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑi⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ū
    • Tâi-lô: ū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: u
    • IPA (Xiamen): /u²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ú
    • Tâi-lô: ú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

• Xiamen, Quanzhou:
  • lú - vernacular;
  • ū/ú - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ru²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zu⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨo^X/▼

Rime
Character	愈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以主切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/jioX/
Shao Rongfen	/ioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆X/
Li Rong	/ioX/
Wang Li	/jĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǔ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*loʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*loʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	愈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ yuX ›
Old Chinese	/*loʔ/
English	increase
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	愈
Reading #	1/1
No.	15877
Phonetic component	俞
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	庾
Old Chinese	/*loʔ/

Definitions

愈

1. more and more; even more

Synonyms

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又閣較／又阁较 (Min Nan) 愈加 (yùjiā) 愈發／愈发 (yùfā) 愈益 (yùyì)

更加 (gèngjiā) 益發／益发 (yìfā) 越 (yuè)

越加 (yuèjiā) 越發／越发 (yuèfā) 閣較／阁较 (Min Nan)

Compounds

大愈 愈……愈…… (yù ... yù ...) 愈出愈奇 愈加 (yùjiā)

愈合 愈愈 愈戰愈勇／愈战愈勇 愈挫愈奮／愈挫愈奋

愈演愈烈 愈發／愈发 (yùfā) 每下愈況／每下愈况 (měixiàyùkuàng) 每況愈下／每况愈下 (měikuàngyùxià)

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 愈 – see 癒 (“to recover”). (This character, 愈, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 癒.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

愈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆ (yu)
• Kun: まさる (masaru); いよいよ (iyoiyo)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
愈
いよいよ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 愈 – see the following entry at いよいよ.

いよいよ【愈・愈々・弥々】 [adverb]more and more; increasingly [adverb]finally; at last [adverb]indeed; really; no doubt

(This term, 愈, is a kanji spelling of いよいよ.)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

愈 (rủ)

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