喻

See also: 喩

喻 U+55BB, 喻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BB ← 喺 [U+55BA] CJK Unified Ideographs 喼 → [U+55BC]

Translingual

Han character

喻 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人一弓 (ROMN), four-corner 6802₁, composition ⿰口俞)

1. metaphor, analogy
2. example
3. like

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 657, character 8
• Unihan data for U+55BB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		喻

Alternative forms

• 喩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): ū / jī / lū / jū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
    • IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁶
    • Yale: yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ū
    • Tâi-lô: ū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: u
    • IPA (Xiamen): /u²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī
    • Tâi-lô: jī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ji
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑi²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lū
    • Tâi-lô: lū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lu³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lu⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jū
    • Tâi-lô: jū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ju
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zu²²/

Note:

• ū/jī - literary;
• lū/jū - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨo^H/▼

Rime
Character	喻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊戍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/jioH/
Shao Rongfen	/ioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆H/
Li Rong	/ioH/
Wang Li	/jĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*lo-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*los/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	喻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ yuH ›
Old Chinese	/*lo-s/
English	understand; metaphor
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	喻
Reading #	1/1
No.	15880
Phonetic component	俞
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	裕
Old Chinese	/*los/
Notes	同諭

Definitions

喻

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Japanese

Kanji

喻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆ (yu)
• Kun: さとす (satosu), さとる (satoru), たとえる (tatoeru)

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Korean

Hanja

喻 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喻 (dụ, dầu, dẫu, dỗ, nhủ, rủ, dẩu)

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