友

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

From a pictograph of two hands meeting in friendship.

http://www.nihongo.aikidoka.ru/image/kanji/29/tomo/_a.gif

Han character

友 (radical 29 又+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 大水 (KE), four-corner 4004₇, composition ⿸𠂇又)

1. friend, companion
2. fraternity

See also

• 朋

References

• KangXi: page 165, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3119
• Dae Jaweon: page 374, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 391, character 1
• Unihan data for U+53CB

See also

• 朋友

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		友

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǒu (you³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): iú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: yu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeou
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯oʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁵
    • Yale: yáuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iú
    • Tâi-lô: iú
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (友, reconstructed)
Character (友), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 云久切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɨuX/	/i̯ə̯uX/	/ɣiuX/	/ɦiuX/	/ɦuwX/	/ɣĭəuX/	/ɣiəuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (友, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
友								yǒu								‹ hjuwX ›								/*[ɢ]ʷəʔ/								friend
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
友					15596					又					之					0					有					/*ɢʷɯʔ/

Noun

友

1. friend

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Japanese

Kanji

友

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. friend

Readings

• On: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: とも (tomo)

Noun

友 (hiragana とも, romaji tomo)

1. friend; pal

Proper noun

友 (hiragana ゆう, romaji Yū)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

友 (u)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 우 (revised: u, McCune-Reischauer: u, Yale: wu)

• Name (hangeul): 벗()

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Vietnamese

Han character

友 (hữu)

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