尤

See also: 尢

Translingual

Han character

尤 (radical 43 尢+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 戈大山 (IKU), four-corner 4301₀)

1. especially, particularly
2. a surname

References

• KangXi: page 298, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7543
• Dae Jaweon: page 593, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 551, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5C24

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		尤

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yóu (you²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): iû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: you
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁴
    • Yale: yàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iû
    • Tâi-lô: iû
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (尤, reconstructed)
Character (尤), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 羽求切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɨu/	/i̯ə̯u/	/ɣiu/	/ɦiu/	/ɦuw/	/ɣĭəu/	/ɣiəu/

Old Chinese pronunciation (尤, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
尤								yóu								‹ hjuw ›								/*[ɢ]ʷə/								fault; even more
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
尤					15503					尤					之					0					尤					/*ɢʷɯ/					甲文象又（手）上加筆指疣

Compounds

• 尤其

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

尤

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: とがめる (togameru), とが (toga), もっとも (mottomo)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

尤 (vưu)

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