鈺

See also: 钰

鈺 U+923A, 鈺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-923A ← 鈹 [U+9239] CJK Unified Ideographs 鈻 → [U+923B]

Translingual

Han character

鈺 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金一土戈 (CMGI), four-corner 8111₃, composition ⿰釒玉)

Derived characters

• 𫓈

Related characters

• 钰 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1300, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40273
• Dae Jaweon: page 1802, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4181, character 10
• Unihan data for U+923A

Chinese

trad.		鈺
simp.		钰

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 金 (“metal; gold”) + phonetic 玉 (“jade”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: juk⁶
    • Yale: yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚²/

Definitions

鈺

1. gold and jade; treasure
2. (historical dictionaries only) hard or solid metal
3. Used in personal names.

Japanese

Kanji

鈺

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. (archaic) rare treasure; precious treasure
2. (archaic) hard or solid metal

Readings

• On (unclassified): ぎょく (gyoku)、ごく (goku)
• Kun: たから (takara)

Korean

Hanja

鈺 (eum 옥 (ok))

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