乳

Translingual

Han character

乳 (radical 5 乙+7, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月木山 (BDU), four-corner 2241₀, composition ⿰孚乚)

1. breast, nipples
2. milk
3. suckle

See also

• 奶

References

• KangXi: page 84, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 190
• Dae Jaweon: page 171, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 55, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4E73

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		乳

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rǔ (ru³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: rǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ju³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ruu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʐu²¹⁴/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁵
    • Yale: yúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (乳, reconstructed)
Character (乳), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 日 (38) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 而主切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ȵɨoX/	/ȵʑi̯uX/	/ȵioX/	/ȵioX/	/ȵuə̆X/	/ȵʑĭuX/	/ȵʑioX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (乳, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
乳								rǔ								‹ nyuX ›								/*noʔ/								milk; nipple
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
乳					10868					乳					侯					0					乳					/*njoʔ/

Compounds

• 乳脂汤 (rǔzhītāng)

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Japanese

Kanji

乳

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: にゅう (nyū)
• Kan’on: じゅ (ju)
• Kun: ちち (chichi), ち (chi)

Compounds

• 牛乳 (hiragana ぎゅうにゅう, romaji gyūnyū) milk
• お乳 (hiragana おちち, romaji ochichi): milk (of mammals)

Noun

乳 (hiragana ちち, romaji chichi)

1. milk
2. breast

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Korean

Hanja

乳 (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

乳 (vú, nhú, nhỗ, nhũ)

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References

• Nom Foundation