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U+6E38, 游
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E38

[U+6E37]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6E39]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 85, +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水卜尸木 (EYSD), four-corner 38147, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𣛦, 𪆎

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 635, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17792
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1042, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1684, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6E38
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Chinese

More information simp. and trad., 2nd round simp. ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 游, Spring and Autumn ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lu): semantic (water) + phonetic (OC *lu). However, the phonetic component has a reference to travelling, hence it adds part of the meaning.

Etymology 1

From Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Tibetan རྒྱུ་བ (rgyu ba, to walk; to wander), Lepcha ᰚᰪᰌᰦ (yŭ-da, to flow), Rawang (to flow) (Schuessler, 2007).

Same word as (OC *lu, “to roam; to travel”). Cognate with (OC *ru, “to flow”), (OC *lju). Probably unrelated to (OC *lɯw, “abundant”), (“flowing”).

Pronunciation



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Definitions

  1. to swim
       yóu dé zuì yuǎn.   He swam the furthest.
    他們一起 [MSC, trad.]
    他们一起 [MSC, simp.]
    Tāmen yīqǐ yóu xiàng nà sōu chuán. [Pinyin]
    Together they swam to the ship.
  2. reach; part of a river
       shàngyóu   upper reach, upstream
       xiàyóu   lower reach, downstream
  3. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to travel; to tour; to wander; to roam; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of ).
Notes:

References

  • ”, 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), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 289.
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Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. to float
  2. to swim

Readings

  • On (unclassified): ゆう ()りゅう (ryū)
  • Kun: およぐ (oyogu)あそぶ (asobu)あそび (asobi)
  • equivalent:

Korean

Hanja

(yu) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: du

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