若

Translingual

Han character

若 (radical 140 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿大口 (TKR), four-corner 4460₄, composition ⿱艹右)

1. if, supposing, assuming
2. similar
3. young
4. you

References

• KangXi: page 1023, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30796
• Dae Jaweon: page 1482, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3187, character 7
• Unihan data for U+82E5

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		若

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ruò, ré, rè (ruo⁴, re², re⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄛˋ, ㄖㄜˊ, ㄖㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): je⁵, joek⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): ná / nā / jio̍k / lio̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ruò
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade-Giles: juo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ruoh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʐu̯ɔ⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ré
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄜˊ
    • Wade-Giles: jê²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: re
    • IPA ^(key): /ʐɤ³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: rè
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄜˋ
    • Wade-Giles: jê⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: reh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʐɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: je⁵, joek⁶
    • Yale: yéh, yeuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: je⁵, joek⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /jɛː¹³/, /jœːk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ná / nā / jio̍k / lio̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ná / nā / jio̍k / lio̍k
    • IPA (Taipei): /na⁴¹/, /na³³/, /d͡ʑiɔk̚⁴/, /liɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /na⁵³/, /na²²/, /d͡ʑiɔk̚¹²¹/, /liɔk̚¹²¹/
  • Note: ná, nā - vernacular, jio̍k, lio̍k - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (若, reconstructed)
Character (若), Pronunciation 1/3
Initial: 日 (38) Final: 麻 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 人賒切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ȵia/	/ȵʑi̯a/	/ȵia/	/ȵia/	/ȵia/	/ȵʑĭa/	/ȵʑia/
Character (若), Pronunciation 2/3
Initial: 日 (38) Final: 麻 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 人者切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ȵiaX/	/ȵʑi̯aX/	/ȵiaX/	/ȵiaX/	/ȵiaX/	/ȵʑĭaX/	/ȵʑiaX/
Character (若), Pronunciation 3/3
Initial: 日 (38) Final: 藥 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 而灼切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ȵɨɐk̚/	/ȵʑi̯ak̚/	/ȵiak̚/	/ȵiɐk̚/	/ȵɨak̚/	/ȵʑĭak̚/	/ȵʑiɑk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (若, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
若								ruò								‹ nyak ›								/*nak/								you
若								ruò								‹ nyak ›								/*nak/								agree
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
若					10929					若					魚					0										/*nja/
若					10932					若					魚					0					若					/*njaʔ/
若					10940					若					鐸					0					若					/*njaɡ/					叒加口轉註

Definitions

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References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

若

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. young
2. if

Readings

• Goon: にゃく (nyaku), にゃ (nya)
• Kan’on: じゃく (jaku), じゃ (ja)
• Kun: もしくは (moshikuha), わか (waka), わかい (wakai), したがう (shitagau)

Compounds

• 若干 (jakkan)
• 若年 (jakunen)
• 若輩 (jakuhai)

• 老若 (rōnyaku)
• 若者 (wakamono)
• 若人 (wakōdo)

Noun

若 (hiragana わか, romaji waka)

1. "my lord" (towards a young master or a young heir)

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Korean

Hanja

若 (yak, ya)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 약, 야 (revised: yak, ya, McCune-Reischauer: yak, ya, Yale: yak, ya)

• Name (hangeul): 같을, 만약()

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Vietnamese

Han character

若 (nhược, nhã)

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