愈

See also: 癒 and 瘉

Translingual

Han character

愈 (radical 61 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人一月心 (OMBP), four-corner 8033₂, composition ⿱俞心)

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References

• KangXi: page 394, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10904
• Dae Jaweon: page 730, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2322, character 15
• Unihan data for U+6108

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		愈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): jú / lú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
    • IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁶
    • Yale: yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jú / lú
    • Tâi-lô: jú / lú
    • IPA (Taipei): /d͡zu⁴¹/, /lu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zu⁵³/, /lu⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (愈, reconstructed)
Character (愈), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 以主切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨoX/	/i̯uX/	/ioX/	/jioX/	/juə̆X/	/jĭuX/	/ioX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (愈, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
愈								yù								‹ yuX ›								/*loʔ/								increase
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
愈					15877					俞					侯					0					庾					/*loʔ/

Compounds

• 愈发
• 愈合
• 愈加
• 愈演愈烈
• 愈…愈…

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

愈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ゆ (yu)
• Kun: まさる (masaru), いよいよ (iyoiyo)

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Korean

Hanja

愈 (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

愈 (rủ)

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