悠

Translingual

Han character

悠 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人大心 (OKP), four-corner 2833₄, composition ⿱攸心)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 388, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10681
• Dae Jaweon: page 720, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2300, character 15
• Unihan data for U+60A0

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Chinese

trad.		悠
simp. #		悠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
絛	*l̥ʰɯːw
窱	*ʔl'ɯːwʔ, *l̥ʰɯːws
蓧	*l̥ʰɯːw, *l'ɯːwɢ
條	*l'ɯːw
鋚	*l'ɯːw
鞗	*l'ɯːw
樤	*l'ɯːw
鰷	*l'ɯːw
莜	*l'ɯːws
翛	*slɯːw, *hljɯwɢ
筱	*slɯːwʔ
篠	*slɯːwʔ
修	*slɯw
脩	*slɯw
樇	*slɯw
滫	*slɯwʔ
悠	*lɯw
攸	*lɯw
浟	*lɯw
蓨	*l̥ʰɯːwɢ
滌	*l'ɯːwɢ
儵	*hljɯwɢ
倐	*hljɯwɢ
倏	*hljɯwɢ
虪	*hljɯwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōu (you¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yû
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hiun¹ / hiu¹

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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: jau⁴
    • Yale: yàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yû
    • Hakka Romanization System: iu^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yiu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯u²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yû
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iu^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yiu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯u²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iu
    • Tâi-lô: iu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hiun¹ / hiu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hiuⁿ / hiu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hĩũ³³/, /hiu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: yuw

Rime
Character	悠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以周切
Baxter	yuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/jiu/
Shao Rongfen	/iəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juw/
Li Rong	/iu/
Wang Li	/jĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*liw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lɯw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	悠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yōu
Middle Chinese	‹ yuw ›
Old Chinese	/*liw/
English	long-brooding
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	悠
Reading #	1/1
No.	15479
Phonetic component	攸
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	猷
Old Chinese	/*lɯw/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 悠

1. remote; distant
2. leisurely
3. to swing

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Japanese

Kanji

悠

(Jōyō kanji)

1. permanence

Readings

• Go-on: ゆう (yū, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū, Jōyō)
• Kun: とおい (tōi, 悠い); はるか (haruka, 悠か)
• Nanori: ちか (chika); ちかし (chikashi); はるか (haruka); ひさ (hisa); ひさし (hisashi); ゆ (yu)

Proper noun

悠(ゆう) • (Yū) 

1. a male given name

Proper noun

悠(はるか) • (Haruka) 

1. a female given name

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Korean

Hanja

悠 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 悠 (du, đu)

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