毓

See also 育

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 育

Etymology

每 + 㐬 – a woman giving birth. A woman 每 squatting on left, with child head down on right 㐬, with lines (川) below head (hair, coming out). The top part of 㐬 is an abstracted body with a head at the bottom; compare 充.

Han character

毓 (radical 80 毋+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人卜卜戈山 (OYYIU), four-corner 8051₃)

1. give birth to
2. bring up, educate

References

• KangXi: page 590, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16740
• Dae Jaweon: page 982, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2384, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6BD3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

毓 (Yale yuk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

毓

Readings

• On: いく (iku)
• Kun: そだてる (sodateru)

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Korean

Hanja

毓 (hangeul 육, revised yuk, McCune-Reischauer yuk, Yale yuk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

毓 (pinyin yù (yu4), Wade-Giles yü⁴)