尢

See also: 尤

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogram (指事), a man with bent legs (jumping or collapsing). Compare with 大, which derives from a man with straight legs, and in present form has slightly different strokes.

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

Han character

尢 (radical 43 尢+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 大山 (KU), X大山 (XKU), four-corner 4001₀)

1. weak
2. KangXi radical 43

Descendants

• ㄤ

Related characters

• 大

References

• KangXi: page 298, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7539
• Dae Jaweon: page 593, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 551, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5C22

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		尢

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wāng, yóu (wang¹, you²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄤ, ㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wong¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): vong
• Min Nan (POJ): ong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: wang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uang
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: you
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wong¹
    • Yale: wōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wong¹
    • IPA ^(key): /wɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vong
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /voŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ong
    • Tâi-lô: ong
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔŋ³⁴/

Usage notes

Only used independently as a variant of 尤.

References

• 2005, William McNaughton, Reading & Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition, 2nd Edition, Tuttle, ISBN 978-0804835091, page 14:
• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

尢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: おう (ō)
• Kun: あしなえ (ashinae), せむし (semushi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尢 (uông, vưu)

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