禹

Translingual

Han character

禹 (radical 114 禸+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹中月戈 (HLBI), four-corner 2042₇)

1. Yu the Great, legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty

References

• KangXi: page 848, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24885
• Dae Jaweon: page 1269, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 39, character 11
• Unihan data for U+79B9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

禹 (Yale yu5)

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Japanese

Kanji

禹 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Name of a Xia Dynasty emperor in ancient China: Emperor Yŭ, Yŭ the Great, or Dà Yŭ.

Readings

• On: う (u)

Compounds

• 禹域 (ういき, uiki)
• 禹穴 (うけつ, uketsu)
• 禹行舜趨 (うこうしゅんすう, ukōshunsū)
• 禹貢 (うこう, ukō)
• 禹歩 (うほ, uho)
• 禹余糧 (うよりょう, uyoryō)

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Korean

Hanja

禹 (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

禹 (pinyin yǔ (yu3), Wade-Giles yü³)

Compounds

• 大禹 (Yu the Great)

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Vietnamese

Han character

禹 (vũ)

• 夏禹 Hạ Vũ

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999