呦

呦 U+5466, 呦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5466 ← 呥 [U+5465] CJK Unified Ideographs 呧 → [U+5467]

Translingual

Han character

呦 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口女戈尸 (RVIS), four-corner 6402₇, composition ⿰口幼)

1. the bleating of the deer

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 181, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3437
• Dae Jaweon: page 400, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 610, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5466

Chinese

simp. and trad.		呦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 呦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
黝	*qliw, *qrɯwʔ
坳	*qrɯːw, *qrɯːws
軪	*qrɯːw, *qrɯːws
眑	*qrɯːw, *qrɯwʔ
拗	*qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws
鴢	*qrɯːwʔ, *qɯːwʔ
靿	*qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws
狕	*qrɯːwʔ
袎	*qrɯːws
怮	*qɯːw, *qrɯw, *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ
窈	*qiːwʔ
苭	*qɯːwʔ
泑	*qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ
呦	*qrɯw
蚴	*qrɯwʔ
幼	*qrɯws

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōu (you¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): iu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iu

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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–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jau¹
    • Yale: yāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: iu¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: iu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: iu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (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/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jiw

Rime
Character	呦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	幽 (138)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於虯切
Baxter	'jiw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪu/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɨu/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔieu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjiw/
Li Rong	/ʔiĕu/
Wang Li	/iəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qrɯw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	呦
Reading #	1/1
No.	15639
Phonetic component	幼
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	幽
Old Chinese	/*qrɯw/

Definitions

呦

1. an expression of surprise or sudden awareness

   呦！你怎麼也來了？ [MSC, trad.]
   呦！你怎么也来了？ [MSC, simp.]

   Yōu! Nǐ zěnme yě lái le? [Pinyin]

   Hey! Fancy seeing you here.

   呦，飯糊了！／呦，饭糊了！  ―  Yōu, fàn hú le!  ―  Oh no, the rice is burnt.

2. (literary) sound of deer (only used in 呦呦 (yōuyōu))

Compounds

• 呦呦 (yōuyōu)
• 呦嚄說 / 呦嚄说
• 咿呦

References

• “呦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “呦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 288.

Japanese

Kanji

呦

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆう (yū)^{←いう (iu, historical)}、ゆ (yu)、おう (ō)^{←あう (au, historical)}、よう (yō)^{←えう (eu, historical)}
• Kun: むせぶ (musebu)、さけぶ (sakebu)

Korean

Hanja

呦 (eum 유 (yu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

呦: Hán Nôm readings: u, ạo, ao, ào

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