祐

See also: 佑

Translingual

Han character

祐 (radical 113 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火大口 (IFKR), four-corner 3426₀, composition ⿰礻右)

1. divine intervention, protection

References

• KangXi: page 841, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24652
• Dae Jaweon: page 1259, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2391, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7950

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yòu (you⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yow
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁶
    • Yale: yauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɨu^H/▼

Rime
Character	祐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	于救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦuwH/
Li Rong	/ɣiuH/
Wang Li	/ɣĭəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yòu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷəʔ/, /*[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷɯs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祐	祐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yòu	yòu
Middle Chinese	‹ hjuwX ›	‹ hjuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷəʔ/	/*[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s/
English	help, blessing	help, blessing
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	祐
Reading #	1/1
No.	15606
Phonetic component	又
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	宥
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷɯs/

Definitions

祐

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Japanese

Kanji

祐

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: たすける (tasukeru), すけ (suke)

Proper noun

祐 ‎(hiragana ひろし, romaji Hiroshi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

祐 • ‎(u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

祐 (hựu, hữu)

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