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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Alternative forms [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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 (woman 母 on left, upside down child 㐬 on right; the top part is an abstracted body with a head at the bottom; compare ).

Significantly simplified and abstracted in large seal and seal script: woman eliminated, lines 川 re-interpreted as ribs (, ), thence simplified to .

育
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character [edit]

(radical 130 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈月 (YIB), four-corner 00227, composition)

  1. produce, give birth to
  2. educate

Related characters [edit]

See also [edit]

  • ( ) (etymologically unrelated, common simplification)

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale yuk6)


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

  • 教育 (きょういく, kyōiku, education)

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

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


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin (yu4), Wade-Giles4)


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(dục)