兪

See also: 俞 and 𰂙

兪	U+516A, 兪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-516A

← 兩
[U+5169]

CJK Unified Ideographs

八 →
[U+516B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

兪 (Kangxi radical 11, 入+7, 9 strokes, Cangjie input 人一月女 (OMBV), four-corner 8022₁ or 8023₇, composition ⿱亼⿰月巜(T) or ⿱𠓛⿰⿵⺆⺀巜(GJK))

Derived characters

偸, 喩, 堬, 婾, 崳, 㡏, 揄, 渝, 㺄, 隃, 楡, 牏, 瑜, 腧, 䄖, 睮, 䃋, 褕, 緰, 羭, 蝓, 䜽, 貐, 踰, 䠼, 䤅, 鍮, 䩱, 騟
逾, 毺, 䬔, 㓱, 鄃, 歈, 毹, 㼶, 覦, 嵛, 萮, 窬, 㢏, 瘉, 䵉, 匬

Additional Derived Characters

𫥓, 𢔢, 𣈥, 𪹊, 𤚎, 𤭷, 𥠕, 𮄶, 𦖭, 𦩞, 𧱬, 𪟺, 𩜶, 𪱎, 𪉰, 𪍍(𱋠)
𧼯, 𢾄, 𣂮, 𫖾, 𪃎, 𡩗, 𣈯, 𠕦, 𦋢, 𬲂, 𬰅, 𭵙, 𠐙, 𪎨, 𨵦, 𭌁, 𨽙, 𣤔, 𭭖

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 126, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1437
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 155, character 5
Unihan data for U+516A

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 兪
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

In oracle bone script, it was likely a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 凡 + phonetic inverted 由 (OC *lɯw), hence a form vaguely similar to 甲. It's also possible that the phonetic component is instead an ancient form of 鏃 (OC *ʔsoːɡ).

In bronze inscriptions, 凡 corrupted into 舟, and the bottom-right subcomponent of 甲 gradually corrupted into two lines 巜 (now written 刂). The upper-right subcomponent (vaguely similar to 口) was eventually stylized as (亼) and moved to the top of the character in bamboo slips. Eventually, 舟 was further corrupted into 月, arriving at the modern form 俞.

Unrelated to 前, 刖, 巜, and 巛.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 兪 – see 俞 (“to hollow a tree to make a boat; yes; indeed; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 俞).

Japanese

Kanji

兪

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ゆ (yu)
Kun: しかり (shikari)

Korean

Hanja

兪 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu)

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