於

See also: 于

§Translingual

Stroke order

§Han character

於 (radical 70 方+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人卜 (YSOY), four-corner 0823₃, composition ⿰方仒)

1. in, at, on
2. interjection alas!
3. a surname

§Descendants

• お
• オ
• 于

§References

• KangXi: page 481, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13628
• Dae Jaweon: page 843, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2175, character 2
• Unihan data for U+65BC

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§Chinese

		-
trad.		於
simp.		于

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú, wū (yu², wu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ, ㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu¹, wu¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): yi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wū
    • Zhuyin: ㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: wu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: u
    • IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu¹, wu¹
    • Yale: yū, wū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy¹, wu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː⁵⁵/, /wuː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yi1

Middle Chinese pronunciation (於, reconstructed)
Character (於), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 魚 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 央居切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔɨʌ/	/ʔi̯wo/	/ʔiɔ/	/ʔiɔ/	/ʔɨə̆/	/ĭo/	/ʔiɔ/
Character (於), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 哀都切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔuo/	/ʔuo/	/ʔo/	/ʔuo/	/ʔɔ/	/u/	/ʔo/

Old Chinese pronunciation (於, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
於								wū								‹ ʔu ›								/*[ʔ]ˤa/								oh!
於								yú								‹ ʔjo ›								/*[ʔ]a/								at (locative preposition)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
於					15810					於					魚					0					烏					/*qaː/
於					15812					於					魚					0					於					/*qa/

§Preposition

於

1. in

   生於1980年

   be born in 1980

§Proper noun

於

1. A surname (not to be confused with the name 于)

§External links

• uname.cn

§Related terms

• 在
• 給
• 對
• 從

§Derived terms

• 於今
• 於是

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§Japanese

§Kanji

於

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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§Readings

• On: お (o), よ (yo)
• Kun: あう (au), より (yori), おいて (oite)

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§Korean

§Hanja

於 (eo, o)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 어, 오 (revised: eo, o, McCune-Reischauer: ŏ, o, Yale: e, o)

• Name (hangeul): 어조사 어, 감탄사 오()

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

於 (ư, ơ, ở, ưa, ô, ờ, ớ, thờ, ứ)

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