庾

庾 U+5EBE, 庾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EBE ← 庽 [U+5EBD] CJK Unified Ideographs 庿 → [U+5EBF]

Translingual

Han character

庾 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹難人 (IHXO), four-corner 0023₇, composition ⿸广臾)

1. granary
2. storehouse

Derived characters

• 𭊙, 𣚲, 𥛩, 𱡨, 𦺮

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 348, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9398
• Dae Jaweon: page 659, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 888, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5EBE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		庾

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
萸	*lo
臾	*ɡruds, *lo
腴	*lo
諛	*lo
楰	*lo, *loʔ
庾	*loʔ
斞	*loʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǔ (yu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁵ / jyu⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): jú / lú

  (Teochew, Peng'im): u² / ru⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǔ
    • Wade–Giles: yü³
    • Yale: yǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁵ / jyu⁴
    • Yale: yúh / yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁵ / jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁵ / yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː¹³/, /jyː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jú / lú
    • Tâi-lô: jú / lú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: juo, luo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /d͡zu⁵³/, /lu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /d͡zu⁵⁵⁴/, /lu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zu⁵³/, /lu⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /d͡zu⁵³/, /lu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu⁴¹/, /lu⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: u² / ru⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ú / jû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵²/, /d͡zu⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: yuX

Rime
Character	庾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以主切
Baxter	yuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/jioX/
Shao Rongfen	/ioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆X/
Li Rong	/ioX/
Wang Li	/jĭuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ](r)oʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*loʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ yuX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ](r)oʔ/
English	stacks of grain in the field
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	庾
Reading #	1/1
No.	15827
Phonetic component	臾
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	庾
Old Chinese	/*loʔ/

Definitions

庾

1. (archaic) pile of grain; open-air granary
2. (historical) unit of volume

   alt. forms: 斞 (yǔ)

3. a surname

   庾澄慶／庾澄庆  ―  Yǔ Chéngqìng  ―  Harlem Yu (Taiwanese variety show host and singer)

References

• (Min Nan) “庾”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji

庾

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆ (yu)
• Kun: くら (kura)

Korean

Hanja in this term
庾

Hanja

庾 (eumhun 곳집 유 (gotjip yu))
庾 (eumhun 노작가리 유 (nojakgari yu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

庾: Hán Nôm readings: dũ

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References

• Nom Foundation