育

See also: 毓

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 毓

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a woman giving birth. Originally a woman squatting on left, with child head down on right, with lines (川) below head (hair, coming out). Etymology clearer in alternative form 毓 (woman 母 on left, upside down child 㐬 on right; the top part is an abstracted body with a head at the bottom; compare 充).

Significantly simplified and abstracted in large seal and seal script: woman eliminated, lines 川 re-interpreted as ribs (肉, ⺼), thence simplified to 月.

育	育	育
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

育 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈月 (YIB), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿱云月)

1. produce, give birth to
2. educate

Related characters

• 充

See also

• 徹 (撤 轍) (etymologically unrelated, common simplification)

References

• KangXi: page 976, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29318
• Dae Jaweon: page 1427, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2052, character 5
• Unihan data for U+80B2

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		育

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): yuk
• Min Nan (POJ): io̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
    • IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk⁶
    • Yale: yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yuk
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /juk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io̍k
    • Tâi-lô: io̍k
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɔk̚¹²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (育, reconstructed)
Character (育), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 屋 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 余六切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨuk̚/	/i̯uk̚/	/iuk̚/	/jiuk̚/	/juwk̚/	/jĭuk̚/	/iuk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (育, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
育								yù								‹ yuwk ›								/*m-quk/								breed, produce
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
育					15984					育					覺					1					育					/*luɡ/					說文肉聲非，實毓右隸變

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Japanese

Kanji

育

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: いく (iku)
• Kun: そだてる (sodateru), はぐくむ (hagukumu), そだつ (sodatsu)

Compounds

• 教育 (きょういく, kyōiku, “education”)

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Korean

Hanja

育 (yuk) (hangeul 육, revised yuk, McCune-Reischauer yuk, Yale yuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

育 (dục)

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