疣

疣

疣 U+75A3, 疣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75A3 ← 疢 [U+75A2] CJK Unified Ideographs 疤 → [U+75A4]

Translingual

Han character

疣 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大戈大山 (KIKU), four-corner 0011₄, composition ⿸疒尤)

References

• KangXi: page 769, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22050
• Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2661, character 13
• Unihan data for U+75A3

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		疣
alternative forms		肬 𪐤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
尤	*ɢʷɯ
疣	*ɢʷɯ
肬	*ɢʷɯ
沋	*ɢʷɯ
訧	*ɢʷɯ
忧	*ɢʷɯs
蚘	*ɢʷɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷɯ) : semantic 疒 (“disease”) + phonetic 尤 (OC *ɢʷɯ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yóu (you²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴
• Min Dong (BUC): ìu
• Min Nan (POJ): iû
• Wu (Wiktionary): hhieu (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yóu
    • Wade–Giles: yu²
    • Yale: yóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: you
    • Palladius: ю (ju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁴
    • Yale: yàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ìu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ieu⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iû
    • Tâi-lô: iû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu²³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hhieu (T3)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɦiɜ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɨu/

Rime
Character	疣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羽求切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦuw/
Li Rong	/ɣiu/
Wang Li	/ɣĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jau4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	疣
Reading #	1/1
No.	15504
Phonetic component	尤
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	尤
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷɯ/
Notes	尤轉註字見釋名

Definitions

疣

1. wart; nodule; tumor; goiter; papule

Synonyms

• 瘊子 (hóuzi)
• 肉贅／肉赘 (ròuzhuì)
• 贅瘤／赘瘤 (zhuìliú)
• 贅疣／赘疣 (zhuìyóu)
• (Min Nan) 贅仔／赘仔, 魚贅仔／鱼赘仔, 鼠尼, 老鼠奶

Compounds

疣子 疣目 疣足 臀疣

跖疣 (zhíyóu) 濕疣／湿疣 (shīyóu) 疣豬／疣猪 (yóuzhū)

疣鼻天鵝／疣鼻天鹅 (yóubí tiān'é) 贅疣／赘疣 (zhuìyóu) 附贅懸疣／附赘悬疣

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Japanese

Kanji

疣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: いぼ (ibo, 疣); たり (tari, 疣)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
疣
いぼ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

A contraction of Old Japanese-derived 飯粒 (ihibo, modern reading ībo, literally “rice grain”), from the way that a wart or skin tag may look like a grain of rice.[1][2]

Alternative forms

• 肬

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) い​ぼ [íꜜbò] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [ibo̞]

Noun

疣(いぼ) • (ibo) 

1. a small protrusion of the skin: a wart, a verruca, a skin tag
2. a wart-like protrusion on the surface of something

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 疣(いぼ)の木(き) (ibonoki): Ligustrum obtusifolium, a kind of privet tree
• 疣足(いぼあし) (iboashi): a parapodium
• 疣結(いぼい) (iboi): a kind of knot
• 疣石(いぼいし) (iboishi): “wart stone” → a stone believed to have the power to cure warts
• 疣猪(いぼいのしし) (iboinoshishi): a warthog
• 疣疣(いぼいぼ) (iboibo): a rash resembling many small warts; a surface covered in small protrusions
• 疣毟(いぼうじり) (iboujiri): “wart plucker” → alternate name for 蟷螂 (kamakiri), the praying mantis
• 疣落(いぼおとし) (ibootoshi): “wart dropper” → alternate name for 蝦蔓, 蘡薁 (ebizuru): Vitis heyneana subsp. ficifolia (syn. Vitis ficifolia), a kind of liana related to the grape
• 疣蛙(いぼがえる) (ibogaeru): a toad
• 疣金物(いぼかなもの) (ibo kanamono): “warty metal” → a metal plate into which numerous round-headed rivets have been driven, such as might be used in building construction or in shipbuilding
• 疣蟹(いぼがに) (ibogani): “warty crab” → a kind of king crab, a member of genus Paralithodes
• 疣細螺(いぼきさご) (ibokisago): a kind of marine snail in family Trochidae
• 疣草(いぼくさ) (ibokusa): “wart weed” → Murdannia keisak, a type of flowering plant related to the dayflower
• 疣仙人掌(いぼさぼてん) (ibo saboten): “wart cactus” → general name for cactus plants of genus Mammillaria
• 疣痔(いぼじ) (iboji): a hemorrhoid, blind piles
• 疣地蔵(いぼじぞう) (ibo jizō): “wart jizō” → a jizō statue believed to have the power to cure warts
• 疣占地(いぼしめじ) (ibo shimeji): “wart shimeji” → alternate name for 占地 (shimeji), the shimeji mushroom
• 疣症(いぼしょう) (iboshō): vercositas, verrucosis
• 疣状(いぼじょう) (ibojō): verrucous, verruciform
• 疣毟(いぼじり) (ibojiri): “wart plucker” → alternate name for 蟷螂 (kamakiri), the praying mantis
• 疣毟巻(いぼじりまき) (ibojirimaki): “wart-plucker curls” → a women's hairstyle popular among rural women until the early Shōwa period, so named for a resemblance to the praying mantis
• 疣背(いぼぜ) (iboze): “wartback” → alternate for 疣鯛 (ibodai): wart perch, Japanese butterfish
• 疣取(いぼた) (ibota): Ligustrum obtusifolium, a kind of privet tree
• 疣取(いぼた)の木(き) (ibotanoki): Ligustrum obtusifolium, a kind of privet tree
• 疣鯛(いぼだい) (ibodai): wart perch, Japanese butterfish
• 疣取(いぼとり) (ibotori): Ligustrum obtusifolium, a kind of privet tree
• 疣螺(いぼにし) (ibonishi), 疣辛螺(いぼにし) (ibonishi): Reishia clavigera (syn. Thais clavigera, a kind of predatory marine snail
• 疣虫(いぼむし) (ibomushi): “wart bug” → alternate name for 蟷螂 (kamakiri), the praying mantis
• 疣毟(いぼむしり) (ibomushiri): “wart plucker” → alternate name for 蟷螂 (kamakiri), the praying mantis
• 疣目(いぼめ) (ibome): a callus, a hardening of the skin due to repeated rubbing or pressure
• 疣海楊(いぼやぎ) (iboyagi): a kind of sea fan, a member of order Alcyonacea, formerly classed under order Gorgonacea
• 疣結(いぼゆい) (iboyui): a kind of knot
• 足底疣(そくていいぼ) (sokutei ibo): a plantar wart
• 副疣(ふくいぼ) (fukuibo): a secondary tubercle

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
疣
たり Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Unknown. Possibly an extension of the nominalized continuative form tari of Old Japanese-derived verb 垂る (taru, “to hang down, to hang off of”, superseded by modern 垂れる tareru).

Appears with this reading in the 新選字鏡 (Shinsen Jikyō)[1] Japanese dictionary of Chinese[3], compiled in 898-901.

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ɾʲi]

Noun

疣(たり) • (tari) 

1. (obsolete, rare) a small protrusion of the skin: a wart, a verruca, a skin tag

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
疣
ゆう Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 疣 (MC ɦɨu).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ᵝː]

Affix

疣(ゆう) • (yū) ^{←いう (iu)?}

1. (rare, medicine, only in compounds) a small protrusion of the skin: a wart, a verruca, a skin tag

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 疣腫(ゆうしゅ) (yūshu): a sycoma, a skin tag
• 疣状(ゆうじょう) (yūjō): verrucous, verruciform
• 疣贅(ゆうぜい) (yūzei): a small protrusion of the skin, more specifically caused by HPV: a wart, a verruca, a skin tag
• 疣贅症(ゆうぜいしょう) (yūzeishō): keratiasis, keratosis
• 主疣(しゅゆう) (shuyū): primary tubercle
• 小疣(しょうゆう) (shōyū): a thymion
• 贅疣(ぜいゆう) (zeiyū): a bump or knot of useless flesh; something useless
• 足底疣贅(そくていゆうぜい) (sokutei yūzei): a plantar wart
• 軟疣(なんゆう) (nan'yū): a soft wart, a molluscum

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. 898–901, Shinsen Jikyō

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Korean

Hanja

疣 • (yu) (hangeul 유, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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