臾

Translingual

Han character

臾 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹難人 (HXO), four-corner 7723₇, composition ⿻臼人(GHT) or ⿻𦥑人(JK))

1. moment, instant, short while

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1003, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30178
• Dae Jaweon: page 1459, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3037, character 4
• Unihan data for U+81FE

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		臾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 臾
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
萸	*lo
臾	*ɡruds, *lo
腴	*lo
諛	*lo
楰	*lo, *loʔ
庾	*loʔ
斞	*loʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǒng, yú (yong³, yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄥˇ, ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jung⁵ / jyu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǒng
    • Wade–Giles: yung³
    • Yale: yǔng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeong
    • Palladius: юн (jun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Yale: yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jung⁵ / jyu⁴
    • Yale: yúhng / yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jung⁵ / jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yung⁵ / yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ¹³/, /jyː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yu, gwijH

Rime
Character	臾	臾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	羊朱切	求位切
Baxter	yu	gwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨo/	/ɡˠiuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/jio/	/ɡʷᵚiH/
Shao Rongfen	/io/	/ɡiuɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆/	/gjwiH/
Li Rong	/io/	/ɡjuiH/
Wang Li	/jĭu/	/ɡwiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯u/	/gwiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú	guì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4	gwai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ](r)o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡruds/, /*lo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	臾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ yu ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ](r)o/
English	pull, drag
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	臾	臾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4735	15823
Phonetic component	貴	臾
Rime group	隊	侯
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	匱	逾
Old Chinese	/*ɡruds/	/*lo/
Notes	古文蕢

Definitions

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References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03394
• “臾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

臾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆ (yu); よう (yō); き (ki)
• Kun: くぼみ (kubomi); すすめる (susumeru); あじか (ajika)

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Korean

Hanja

臾 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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