尿

Translingual

Han character

尿 (radical 44 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸水 (SE), four-corner 7723₂, composition ⿸尸水)

1. urine
2. urinate

References

• KangXi: page 300, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7651
• Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 966, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5C3F

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		尿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niào, suī (niao⁴, sui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄠˋ, ㄙㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): niu⁶, seoi¹
• Min Nan (POJ): jiō / liō

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: niào
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: niao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: niaw
    • IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: suī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: sui¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suei
    • IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: niu⁶, seoi¹
    • Yale: niuh, sēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: niu⁶, soei¹
    • IPA ^(key): /niːu̯²²/, /sɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jiō / liō
    • Tâi-lô: jiō / liō
    • IPA (Taipei): /d͡ʑiə³³/, /liə³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑiə²²/, /liə²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (尿, reconstructed)
Character (尿), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 蕭 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 奴弔切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/neuH/	/nieuH/	/neuH/	/neuH/	/nɛwH/	/nieuH/	/neuH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (尿, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
尿								niào								‹ newH ›								/*kə.nˤewk-s/								urine
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
尿					9517					尿					豹					2					尿					/*neːwɢs/					漢書作溺

Compounds

• 尿嘧啶

References

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

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Japanese

Kanji

尿

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. urine

Readings

• Goon: にょう (nyō) < ねう (neu)
• Kan’on: じょう (jō) < でう (deu) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: ゆまり (yumari), ゆばり (yubari), いばり (ibari), ばり (bari)

Etymology 1

Compound of yu (“warm water”) and the nominalization of the verb mar- (“excrete”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jumari/

Noun

尿 (hiragana ゆまり, romaji yumari)

1. urine

Etymology 2

From yumari (“id”). Bilabial nasal /m/ loses nasality becoming /b/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jubari/

Noun

尿 (hiragana ゆばり, romaji yubari)

1. urine

Etymology 3

From yubari (“id”). Inital /yu/ > */yi/ > /i/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ibari/

Noun

尿 (hiragana いばり, romaji ibari)

1. urine

Etymology 4

From yubari (“id”), with the initial /yu/ dropping off.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bari/

Noun

尿 (hiragana ばり, romaji bari)

1. urine

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕito/

Noun

尿 (hiragana しと, romaji shito)

1. urine

Etymology 6

Cognate with shito (“id”) and shii (“id”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕiɕi/

Noun

尿 (hiragana しし, romaji shishi)

1. urine

Etymology 7

Cognate with shito (“id”) and shishi (“id”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕiː/

Noun

尿 (hiragana しい, romaji shii)

1. urine

Etymology 8

/neu/ > [njoː].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /njoː/

Noun

尿 (hiragana にょう, romaji nyō, historical hiragana ねう)

1. urine

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Korean

Hanja

尿 (nyo) (hangeul 뇨, revised nyo, McCune-Reischauer nyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尿 (niếu, niệu)

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