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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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Phonosemantic interpretation[edit]

Old Chinese Initial /*k-/ lends semantic value Frame. Vowel /*-ua-/ lends semantic value Curving/Round. Pictogram (象形) of a person's right arm contracted in surrounding or protecting an object resting on the shoulders → above; beyond → again; moreover; or. Source: Howell & Morimoto

Etymology[edit]

Pictogram (象形) – a hand, used for sound value.

又 又 又 又
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character[edit]

(radical 29 +0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 弓大 (NK), four-corner 17400)

  1. and, also, again, in addition

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 164, character 43
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3115
  • Dae Jaweon: page 374, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 390, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+53C8

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(jyutping jau6, Yale yau6)


Hakka[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(POJ , Guangdong ju5 [Meixian], zu6, zu3 [Hailu], Hagfa Pinyim yiu4)

References[edit]


Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings[edit]


Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(hangeul , revised u, McCune-Reischauer u)


Mandarin[edit]

simpl. and trad.

Pronunciation[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(pinyin yòu (you4), Wade-Giles yu4)

Compounds[edit]

Adverb[edit]

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin yòu)

  1. (Beginning Mandarin) again
    神就造出大鱼和水中所滋生各样有生命的动物,各从其类。造出各样飞鸟,各从其类。神看着是好的。
    Shén jiù zàochū dàyú hé shuǐzhòng suǒ zīshēng gèyàng yǒu shēngmìng de dòngwù, gècóngqílèi. Yòu zàochū gèyàng fēiniǎo, gècóngqílèi. Shén kànzhe shì hào de.
    And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Middle Chinese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(*hiòu)


Min Nan[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(POJ iū (iu7))


Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(hựu, lại)