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幼

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See also: 㓜, 幻, 糼, 糿, and 紉
幼 U+5E7C, 幼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E7C
← 幻
[U+5E7B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 幽 →
[U+5E7D]
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㉅ U+3245, ㉅
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH KINDERGARTEN
← ㉄
[U+3244] 		Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㉆ →
[U+3246]

Translingual

Han character

幼 (Kangxi radical 52, 幺+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 女戈大尸 (VIKS), four-corner 24727, composition ⿰幺力)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 342, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9193
  • Dae Jaweon: page 650, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1093, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5E7C
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (幼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 幺 (“tiny”) + 力 (“strength”). 幺 (OC *qiːw) may also act as a phonetic component.

Pronunciation 1

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Definitions

幼

  1. (literary, or in compounds) infant; young child
  2. (literary, or in compounds) young
  3. (literary, or in compounds) immature
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to love; to take care of (the young)
    老吾老，以及人之老；幼吾幼，以及人之幼。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad. and simp.]
    From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
    Lǎo wú lǎo, yǐjí rén zhī lǎo; yòu wú yòu, yǐjí rén zhī yòu. [Pinyin]
    Treat with the kindness due to youth the young in your own family, so that the young in the families of others shall be similarly treated.
    (Alternatively: “Respect the elderly in your own family as well as you respect the elderly in other families. Care for your own children as well as you care for others’ children.”)
  5. (Cantonese, Southern Min, Eastern Min) thin; fine (not coarse)
    索麵拔罔幼罔好。 [Eastern Min, trad.]
    索面拔罔幼罔好。 [Eastern Min, simp.]
    só̤h-miêng bĕk muōng-éu muōng-hō̤. / [soʔ²⁴⁻⁵³ miɛŋ²⁴² pɛiʔ⁵ muoŋ³³⁻⁵⁵ (Ø-)ŋiɛu²¹³ muoŋ³³⁻³⁵ (h-)ŋo³³] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]
    The thinner the misua is pulled, the better.
  6. (Southern Min, Eastern Min, of food) tender; soft
  7. a surname
Synonyms
  • (infant):
Dialectal synonyms of 小孩 (“child; kid”) [map]
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  • (young):
Dialectal synonyms of 年輕 (“young”) [map]
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  • (thin):
Dialectal synonyms of 細 (“thin; fine; slender”) [map]
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  • (tender):
Dialectal synonyms of 嫩 (“(of food) tender; soft”) [map]
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Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “young”): 老 (lǎo)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

幼

  1. used in 幼眇 and 幼妙

References

  • “幼”, 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–
  • 冯爱珍 [Feng, Aizhen], editor (1998), “幼”, in 福州方言词典 [Dictionary of the Fuzhou Dialect] (in Chinese), Nanjing: 江苏教育出版社 (Jiangsu Educational Press), →ISBN, page 203.
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “幼”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 192.
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