愚

Translingual

Han character

愚 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 田月心 (WBP), four-corner 6033₂, composition ⿱禺心)

Derived characters

• 𠏋, 㦙, 𦔧, 𡪾, 𦽳

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 395, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10946
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2321, character 7
• Unihan data for U+611A

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Chinese

trad.		愚
simp. #		愚

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
齵	*ŋoː, *ŋo
偶	*ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
耦	*ŋoːʔ
藕	*ŋoːʔ
髃	*ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
蕅	*ŋoːʔ
愚	*ŋo
隅	*ŋo
禺	*ŋo, *ŋos
湡	*ŋo
堣	*ŋo
嵎	*ŋo
鰅	*ŋo, *ŋoŋ
鍝	*ŋo
遇	*ŋos
寓	*ŋos
庽	*ŋos
媀	*ŋos
喁	*ŋoŋ
顒	*ŋoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋo) : phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos) + semantic 心 (“heart”) – stupid.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 愚

1. foolish; stupid
2. to fool; to dupe
3. (humble) I

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Japanese

Kanji

愚

(Jōyō kanji)

1. foolish
2. folly
3. absurdity
4. stupid

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぐ (gu, Jōyō)
• Kun: おろか (oroka, 愚か, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 愚(おろ)か (oroka)
• 愚(おろ)かしい (orokashii)
• 愚挙(ぐきょ) (gukyo)
• 愚行(ぐこう) (gukō)
• 愚(ぐ)妻(さい) (gusai)
• 愚人(ぐじん) (gujin)
• 愚図(ぐず)る (guzuru)

• 愚生(ぐせい) (gusei)
• 愚痴(ぐち) (guchi)
• 愚(ぐ)直(ちょく) (guchoku)
• 愚鈍(ぐどん) (gudon)
• 愚(ぐ)昧(まい) (gumai)
• 愚民(ぐみん) (gumin)
• 愚問(ぐもん) (gumon)

• 愚(ぐ)劣(れつ) (guretsu)
• 愚(ぐ)連隊(れんたい) (gurentai)
• 愚弄(ぐろう) (gurō)
• 闇愚(あんぐ) (angu)
• 凡愚(ぼんぐ) (bongu)
• 万愚(ばんぐ)節(せつ) (bangusetsu)
• 庸愚(ようぐ) (yōgu)

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Korean

Hanja

愚 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Adjective

愚 • (ngu)

1. stupid; doltish; foolish