淤

See also: 瘀

淤 U+6DE4, 淤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DE4 ← 淣 [U+6DE3] CJK Unified Ideographs 淥 → [U+6DE5]

Translingual

Han character

淤 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, Cangjie input 水卜尸卜 (EYSY), four-corner 3813₃, composition ⿰氵於)

1. mud, sediment
2. clog up, silt up

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 630, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17665
• Dae Jaweon: page 1033, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1660, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6DE4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		淤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
閼	*qran, *qeːn, *qaːd, *qad
菸	*qeːn, *qas
於	*qaː, *qa
淤	*qa, *qas
箊	*qa
唹	*qa
扵	*qa
瘀	*qas
棜	*qas

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qa, *qas): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 於 (OC *qaː, *qa).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yū (yu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu¹ / jyu² / jyu³
• Eastern Min (BUC): ṳ̆
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): y¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ir / u / i

  (Teochew, Peng'im): e³ / u³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yū
    • Zhuyin: ㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yu
    • Wade–Giles: yü¹
    • Yale: yū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu¹ / jyu² / jyu³
    • Yale: yū / yú / yu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy¹ / jy² / jy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu¹ / yu² / yu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː⁵⁵/, /jyː³⁵/, /jyː³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ṳ̆
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: y¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ṳ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: y¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ir
    • Tâi-lô: ir
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ɯ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: u
    • Tâi-lô: u
    • Phofsit Daibuun: w
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /u⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Longyan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: i
    • Tâi-lô: i
    • Phofsit Daibuun: y
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /i⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Longyan): /i³³⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: e³ / u³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ṳ̀ / ù
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɯ²¹³/, /u²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jo, 'joH

Rime
Character	淤	淤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	央居切	依倨切
Baxter	'jo	'joH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨʌ/	/ʔɨʌH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɔ/	/ʔiɔH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiɔ/	/ʔiɔH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨə̆/	/ʔɨə̆H/
Li Rong	/ʔiɔ/	/ʔiɔH/
Wang Li	/ĭo/	/ĭoH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wo/	/ʔi̯woH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yū	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu1	jyu3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qa/, /*qas/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	淤	淤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15811	15817
Phonetic component	於	於
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	於	飫
Old Chinese	/*qa/	/*qas/

Definitions

淤

1. silt

Compounds

• 放淤
• 淤塞 (yūsè)
• 淤泥 (yūní)
• 淤溉
• 淤滯 / 淤滞
• 淤積 / 淤积 (yūjī)
• 淤血 (yūxuè)
• 淤閼 / 淤阏 (yū'è)

References

• 郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “淤”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 58.

Japanese

Kanji

淤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): よ (yo)、お (o)
• Kun: どろ (doro)

Korean

Hanja

淤 (eum 어 (eo))

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Vietnamese

Han character

淤: Hán Nôm readings: ứa

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