友

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

From a pictograph of two hands meeting in friendship.

Han character

友 (radical 29 又+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 大水 (KE), four-corner 4004₇, composition ⿸𠂇又)

1. friend, companion
2. fraternity

References

• KangXi: page 165, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3119
• Dae Jaweon: page 374, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 391, character 1
• Unihan data for U+53CB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		友

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǒu (you³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yû
• Min Nan (POJ): iú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: yu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeou
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯oʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁵
    • Yale: yáuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yû
    • Hakka Romanization System: iu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yiu¹
    • IPA: /i̯u²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yû
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yiu¹
    • IPA: /(j)i̯u²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iú
    • Tâi-lô: iú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iuo
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɨu^X/▼

Rime
Character	友
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	云久切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦuwX/
Li Rong	/ɣiuX/
Wang Li	/ɣĭəuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǒu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷəʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷɯʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	友
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǒu
Middle Chinese	‹ hjuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷəʔ/
English	friend
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	友
Reading #	1/1
No.	15596
Phonetic component	又
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	有
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷɯʔ/

Noun

友

1. friend

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Japanese

Kanji

友

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. friend

Readings

• On: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: とも (tomo)

Noun

友 ‎(hiragana とも, romaji tomo)

1. friend; pal

Proper noun

友 ‎(hiragana ゆう, romaji Yū)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

友 • ‎(u)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 우 (revised: u, McCune-Reischauer: u, Yale: wu)

• Name (hangeul): 벗()

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Vietnamese

Han character

友 (hữu)

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