幼
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Translingual[edit]
Han character[edit]
幼 (radical 52, 幺+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 女戈大尸 (VIKS), four-corner 24727, composition ⿰幺力)
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 342, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9193
- Dae Jaweon: page 650, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1093, character 7
- Unihan data for U+5E7C
Chinese[edit]
| simp. and trad. |
幼 | |
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| variant forms | 㓜 | |
Glyph origin[edit]
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (幼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 黝 | *qliw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 坳 | *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws |
| 軪 | *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws |
| 眑 | *qrɯːw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 拗 | *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws |
| 鴢 | *qrɯːwʔ, *qɯːwʔ |
| 靿 | *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws |
| 狕 | *qrɯːwʔ |
| 袎 | *qrɯːws |
| 怮 | *qɯːw, *qrɯw, *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 窈 | *qiːwʔ |
| 苭 | *qɯːwʔ |
| 泑 | *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 呦 | *qrɯw |
| 蚴 | *qrɯwʔ |
| 幼 | *qrɯws |
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 幺 (“tiny”) + 力 (“strength”). 幺 (OC *qiːw) may also act as a phonetic component.
Pronunciation[edit]
Definitions[edit]
幼
- infant; young child
- young
- immature
- † to love; to take care of (the young)
- (Cantonese) fine (not coarse)
- A surname.
Compounds[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
幼
Readings[edit]
- Go-on: ゆう (yū)←いう (iu, historical)
- Kan-on: ゆう (yū)←いう (iu, historical)
- Kan’yō-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)←えう (eu, historical)
- Kun: おさない (osanai, 幼い, Jōyō)←をさない (wosanai, historical); いとけない (itokenai, 幼けない); おさなびる (osanabiru, 幼びる)
- Nanori: わか (waka)
Compounds[edit]
Compounds
- 幼芽 (yōga, “plumule”)
- 幼孩 (yōgai)
- 幼学 (yōgaku)
- 幼魚 (yōgyo, “young fish”)
- 幼君 (yōkun, “young master”)
- 幼形 (yōkei, “neoteny”)
- 幼孤 (yōko, “young orphan”)
- 幼根 (yōkon, “(botany) radicle”)
- 幼児 (yōji, “infant, toddler”)
- 幼時 (yōji, “childhood, infancy”)
- 幼歯 (yōshi, “baby tooth”)
- 幼者 (yōsha, “young child, infant”)
- 幼弱 (yōjaku, “young and weak”)
- 幼若 (yōjaku, “juvenile”)
- 幼主 (yōshu, “young monarch”)
- 幼獣 (yōjū, “young animal”)
- 幼女 (yōjo, “young girl”)
- {{ja-r|幼少|ようしょう|very [[young, infancy}}
- 幼生 (yōsei, “larva”)
- 幼稚 (yōchi, “childish; infantile”)
- 幼冲 (yōchū), 幼沖 (yōchū)
- 幼虫 (yōchū, “larva”)
- 幼鳥 (yōchō, “chick”)
- 幼帝 (yōtei, “young emperor”)
- 幼童 (yōdō, “young child”)
- 幼年 (yōnen, “childhood”)
- 幼保 (yōho)
- 幼木 (yōboku)
- 幼齢林 (yōreirin)
- 幼名 (yōmyō, “childhood name”), 幼名 (yōmei)
- 長幼 (chōyō, “the young and the old”)
- 童幼 (dōyō)
- 老幼 (rōyō, “the young and the old”)
- 幼気 (itaike, “young and sweet”)
Etymology 1[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
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| 幼 |
| よう Grade: 6 |
| on’yomi |
*/jiɪu/ → /jieu/ → /jeu/ → /joː/
From Middle Chinese 幼 (MC ʔiɪuH).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
幼 (hiragana よう, rōmaji yō, historical hiragana えう)
Etymology 2[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
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| 幼 |
| おさな Grade: 6 |
| kun’yomi |
/wosana/ → /osana/
Stem of classical verb 幼し (osanashi),[1][2] modern 幼い (osanai, “childish, infantile”).
Noun[edit]
幼 (hiragana おさな, rōmaji osana, historical hiragana をさな)
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Etymology 3[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
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| 幼 |
| いと Grade: 6 |
| kun’yomi |
(This etymology is missing. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 糸 (ito, “thread”)?”)
Noun[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Prefix[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- 幼宮 (itomiya)
References[edit]
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
幼 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu)
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Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
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