臾

臾 U+81FE, 臾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81FE ← 臽 [U+81FD] CJK Unified Ideographs 臿 → [U+81FF]

Translingual

Han character

臾 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹難人 (HXO), four-corner 7723₇, composition ⿻臼人(GHT) or ⿻𦥑人(JK))

1. moment, instant, short while

Derived characters

• 㥚, 㳛, 楰, 腴, 諛(谀), 斔, 斞, 䶾, 萸, 惥, 䝿, 庾, 瘐, 㔱

Additional Derived Characters

• 𠋟, 𱙚, 𱮍, 𨺺, 𫐯, 𣈵, 𣯁, 𤗝, 𤧙, 𥔢, 𮖜, 𰮻, 𧍳, 𧰇, 𬁚, 𱄤, 𮫿
• 𣮵, 𩀑, 𪃪, 𬽑, 𭦺, 𡩟, 𥯮, 𦦚, 𦥳, 𨺫, 𩤺, 𫭌
• 𠏾, 𠑞, 𪼖, 𨖽, 𢊻

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1003, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30178
• Dae Jaweon: page 1459, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3037, character 4
• Unihan data for U+81FE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		臾
2nd round simp.		㬰
alternative forms		㬰

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 臾
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𦥑 (“two hands”) + 人 (“person”) – two hands dragging a person. Compare 曳.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): ṳ̀
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): ru⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Yale: yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴
    • Yale: yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ru⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zu⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: yu

Rime
Character	臾
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊朱切
Baxter	yu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/jio/
Shao Rongfen	/io/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆/
Li Rong	/io/
Wang Li	/jĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ](r)o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	臾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ yu ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ](r)o/
English	pull, drag
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	臾
Reading #	2/2
No.	15823
Phonetic component	臾
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	逾
Old Chinese	/*lo/

Definitions

臾

1. used in 須臾／须臾 (xūyú, “a moment; an instant; a short while”)
2. (obsolete) to pull; to drag
3. Original form of 腴 (yú).
4. a surname

Compounds

• 上臾
• 屬臾 / 属臾
• 甌臾 / 瓯臾
• 臾曳
• 須臾 / 须臾 (xūyú)
• 顓臾 / 颛臾 (Zhuānyú)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǒng (yong³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jung⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǒng
    • Wade–Giles: yung³
    • Yale: yǔng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeong
    • Palladius: юн (jun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jung⁵
    • Yale: yúhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jung⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yung⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ¹³/

Definitions

臾

1. only used in 縱臾／纵臾 (zǒngyǒng)

Pronunciation 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 臾 – see 蕢 (“straw basket; edible amaranth; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 蕢).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03394
• “臾”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 臾

臾

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan-on: ゆ (yu)

Korean

Hanja

臾 (eum 잠깐 유, 권할 용 (jamkkan yu, gwonhal yong))

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