渝

渝 U+6E1D, 渝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E1D ← 渜 [U+6E1C] CJK Unified Ideographs 渞 → [U+6E1E]

Translingual

Han character

渝 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水人一弓 (EOMN) or X水人一弓 (XEOMN), four-corner 3812₁, composition ⿰氵俞)

References

• KangXi: page 633, character 45
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17761
• Dae Jaweon: page 1040, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1681, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6E1D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		渝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (俞) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
褕	low, *lo
偷	l̥ʰoː
媮	l̥ʰoː, *lo
鍮	l̥ʰoː
緰	l'oː, *slo
牏	l'oː, *l'os, *lo
揄	l'oː, *l'oːʔ, *lu, *lo
窬	l'oː, *l'oːs, *lo
歈	l'oː, *lo
俞	l̥ʰus, *lo
隃	slo, *hljo, *hljos, *lo
毹	sro
輸	hljo, *hljos
鄃	hljo, *lo
腧	hljos
逾	lo
榆	lo
愉	lo
渝	lo
瑜	lo
蕍	lo
覦	lo, *los
蝓	lo
踰	lo
崳	lo
羭	lo
堬	lo
瘉	lo, *loʔ
萮	lo
騟	lo
愈	loʔ
貐	loʔ
喻	los
諭	los

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lo): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 俞 (OC *l̥ʰus, *lo).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): lû / jî / jû / û / î

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴
    • Yale: yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lû
    • Tâi-lô: lû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: luu
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /lu²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jî
    • Tâi-lô: jî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑi¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jû
    • Tâi-lô: jû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: juu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu²³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: û
    • Tâi-lô: û
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /u²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /u²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: î
    • Tâi-lô: î
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /i¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨo/▼

Rime
Character	渝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊朱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/jio/
Shao Rongfen	/io/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆/
Li Rong	/io/
Wang Li	/jĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*lo/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lo/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	渝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ yu ›
Old Chinese	/*lo/
English	change (v.)
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	渝
Reading #	1/1
No.	15857
Phonetic component	俞
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	逾
Old Chinese	/*lo/

Definitions

渝

1. to change
2. to go against; to be contrary to
3. ^† to overflow
4. ^† to take off; to remove
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) to consent; to promise
6. Short for 重慶／重庆 (Chóngqìng, “Chongqing”).
7. A surname​.

Compounds

• 不渝
• 信守不渝
• 始終不渝／始终不渝
• 巴渝詞／巴渝词

• 忠貞不渝／忠贞不渝
• 恆久不渝／恒久不渝
• 渝始
• 渝盟

• 生死不渝
• 終始不渝／终始不渝
• 言之不渝
• 金石不渝

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Japanese

Kanji

渝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆ (yu)
• Kun: かわる (kawaru)

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Korean

Hanja

渝 • (tu) (hangeul 투, revised tu, McCune-Reischauer t'u, Yale thwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: du

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References

• Nom Foundation