愉

Translingual

Han character

愉 (radical 61 心+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 心人一弓 (POMN), four-corner 9802₁, composition ⿰忄俞)

1. pleasant, delightful
2. please

References

• KangXi: page 394, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10905
• Dae Jaweon: page 730, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2330, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6109

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		愉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴, jyu⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴, jyu⁶
    • Yale: yùh, yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴, jy⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/, /jyː²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (愉, reconstructed)
Character (愉), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 羊朱切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨo/	/i̯u/	/io/	/jio/	/juə̆/	/jĭu/	/io/

Old Chinese pronunciation (愉, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
愉								yú								‹ yu ›								/*lo/								enjoy
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
愉					15856					俞					侯					0					逾					/*lo/

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Japanese

Kanji

愉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ゆ (yu), とう (tō)
• Kun: たのしむ (tanoshimu), たのしい (tanoshii)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: du

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