麀

麀

麀 U+9E80, 麀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E80 ← 鹿 [U+9E7F] CJK Unified Ideographs 麁 → [U+9E81]

Translingual

Han character

麀 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+2, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈心心 (IPP) or XXX戈心 (XXXIP), four-corner 0021₁, composition ⿸鹿匕)

1. female deer
2. doe

References

• KangXi: page 1508, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47588
• Dae Jaweon: page 2037, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4727, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9E80

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Chinese

trad.		麀
simp. #		麀
alternative forms		𪊛 𪋎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麀
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
鏖	*quː
𤏶	*quː
麀	*qɯw

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 鹿 (“deer”) + abbreviated 牝 (“female”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōu (you¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau¹

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• 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: jau¹
    • Yale: yāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔɨu/

Rime
Character	麀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於求切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuw/
Li Rong	/ʔiu/
Wang Li	/ĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qɯw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	麀
Reading #	1/1
No.	15492
Phonetic component	麀
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	憂
Old Chinese	/*qɯw/

Definitions

麀

1. (literary) female deer; doe
2. (literary) female animal

Compounds

聚麀 (jùyōu)

麀聚

麀鹿 (yōulù)

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Japanese

Kanji

麀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆう (yū), ゆ (yu)
• Kun: めじか (mejika)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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