又

See also 攵, 文, and ヌ

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Phonosemantic interpretation

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

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

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

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

1. and, also, again, in addition

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/又
• 隻

References

• 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

又 (jyutping jau6, Yale yau6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

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

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

又 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: また (mata)

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Korean

Hanja

又 (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u)

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
又

Pronunciation

• audio

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Hanzi

又 (pinyin yòu (you4), Wade-Giles yu⁴)

Compounds

• trad. 又好笑，又好氣, simpl. 又好笑，又好气

Adverb

又 (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。又造出各样飞鸟，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.

External links

• Guoyu Cidian (國語辭典)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

又 (*hiòu)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

又 (POJ iū (iu⁷))

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Vietnamese

Han character

又 (hựu, lại)