隅

隅

隅 U+9685, 隅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9685 ← 隄 [U+9684] CJK Unified Ideographs 隆 → [U+9686]

Translingual

Han character

隅 (radical 170, 阜+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓中田中月 (NLWLB), four-corner 7622₇, composition ⿰阝禺)

1. corner, nook, remote place

References

• KangXi: page 1356, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41743
• Dae Jaweon: page 1860, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4145, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9685

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		隅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (禺) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
齵	*ŋoː, *ŋo
偶	*ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
耦	*ŋoːʔ
藕	*ŋoːʔ
髃	*ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
蕅	*ŋoːʔ
愚	*ŋo
隅	*ŋo
禺	*ŋo, *ŋos
湡	*ŋo
堣	*ŋo
嵎	*ŋo
鰅	*ŋo, *ŋoŋ
鍝	*ŋo
遇	*ŋos
寓	*ŋos
庽	*ŋos
媀	*ŋos
喁	*ŋoŋ
顒	*ŋoŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴, jyu⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴, jyu⁶
    • Yale: yùh, yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴, jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴, yu⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/, /jyː²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɨo/▼

Rime
Character	隅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	虞俱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋio/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuə̆/
Li Rong	/ŋio/
Wang Li	/ŋĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ(r)o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ ngju ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ(r)o/
English	angle, corner
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	隅
Reading #	1/1
No.	15920
Phonetic component	禺
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ŋo/

Definitions

隅

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Compounds

一隅 一隅三反 一隅之地 一隅之見／一隅之见 侷促一隅 向隅 (xiàngyú) 向隅獨泣／向隅独泣 向隅而泣 四隅 坊隅

城隅 字學舉隅／字学举隅 安於一隅／安于一隅 局促一隅 廉隅 斗絕一隅／斗绝一隅 方隅 東隅／东隅 (dōngyú) 海隅 (hǎiyú) 砥礪廉隅／砥砺廉隅

舉隅／举隅 (jǔyú) 苟安一隅 負隅頑抗／负隅顽抗 (fùyúwánkàng) 路隅 邁過隅頭／迈过隅头 隅中 隅反 隅坐 隅頭／隅头

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Japanese

Kanji

隅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. corner
2. nook

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan’yō-on: ぐう (gū, Jōyō)
• Kun: すみ (sumi, 隅, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
隅
すみ Grade: S
kun’yomi

Noun

隅 (hiragana すみ, rōmaji sumi)

1. corner (e.g., of a room or board surface); nook

See also

• 隅々 (すみずみ) (sumizumi)
• 角 (かど) (kado)
• コーナー (kōnā)

Proper noun

隅 (hiragana すみ, rōmaji Sumi)

1. a surname

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Korean

Hanja

隅 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

隅 (ngung, ngong)

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