嚘

Translingual

Han character

嚘 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 口一月水 (RMBE), four-corner 6104₇, composition ⿰口憂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 212, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4515
• Dae Jaweon: page 435, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 699, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5698

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Chinese

trad.		嚘
simp. #		嚘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (憂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
憂	*qu
優	*qu
瀀	*qu
櫌	*qu
鄾	*qu
嚘	*qu
耰	*qu
獶	*qu
纋	*qu
懮	*quʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōu (you¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: you
    • Wade–Giles: yu¹
    • Yale: yōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iou
    • Palladius: ю (ju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jau¹
    • Yale: yāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'juw

Rime
Character	嚘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於求切
Baxter	'juw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuw/
Li Rong	/ʔiu/
Wang Li	/ĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qu/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嚘
Reading #	1/1
No.	15498
Phonetic component	憂
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	憂
Old Chinese	/*qu/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 嚘

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Japanese

Kanji

嚘

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
• Kun: むせぶ (musebu, 嚘ぶ)、なげく (nageku, 嚘く)

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Korean

Hanja

嚘 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u)

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