育
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See also 毓
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[edit] Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a woman giving birth. Originally a woman squatting on left, with child head down on right, with lines (川) below head (hair, coming out). Etymology clearer in alternative form 毓 (woman 母 on left, upside down child 㐬 on right; the top part is an abstracted body with a head at the bottom; compare 充).
Significantly simplified and abstracted in large seal and seal script: woman eliminated, lines 川 re-interpreted as ribs (肉, ⺼), thence simplified to 月.
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[edit] Han character
育 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈月 (YIB), four-corner 00227, composition ⿱云月)
- produce, give birth to
- educate
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- KangXi: page 976, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29318
- Dae Jaweon: page 1427, character 27
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2052, character 5
- Unihan data for U+80B2
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
育 (Yale yuk6)
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- 教育 (きょういく, kyōiku, “education”)
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育 (hangeul 육, revised yuk, McCune-Reischauer yuk, Yale yuk)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Hanzi
育 (pinyin yù (yu4), Wade-Giles yü4)
[edit] Vietnamese
[edit] Han character
育 (dục)
