又

See also: ヌ, ﾇ, ㄡ, 攵, and 文

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

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

Descendants

• ㄡ

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		又

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yòu (you⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): yù
• Min Nan (POJ): iū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yow
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯oʊ̯⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁶
    • Yale: yauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yù
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ju¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iū
    • Tâi-lô: iū
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (又, reconstructed)
Character (又), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 于救切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɨuH/	/i̯ə̯uH/	/ɣiuH/	/ɦiuH/	/ɦuwH/	/ɣĭəuH/	/ɣiəuH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (又, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
又								yòu								‹ hjuwH ›								/*[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s/								also, in addition
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
又					15603					又					之					0					宥					/*ɢʷɯs/

Adverb

又 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yòu)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) again
   • Genesis 1:21

     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。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Shén jiù zào chū dà yú hé shuǐ zhōng suǒ zīshēng gèyàng yǒu shēngmìng de dòngwù, gè cóng qí lèi. Yòu zào chū gèyàng fēiniǎo, gè cóng qí lèi. Shén kàn zhuó shì hǎo de. [Pinyin]

     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.

   • 又下雨了!  ―  yòu xiàyǔ le!  ―  It's raining again!
2. also, in addition
3. and, too, (when repeated) both...and

   • 我又饿又渴。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Wǒ yòu è yòu kě. [Pinyin]

     I am hungry and thirsty.

Compounds

• trad. 又好笑，又好氣, simpl. 又好笑，又好气

References

• "又" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-22.
• "Sentences with 又", Tatoeba. URL accessed on 2014-02-24.
• Guoyu Cidian (國語辭典)
• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

又

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: また (mata)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

又 (lại, hựu)

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References

• Nom Foundation