虞

虞 U+865E, 虞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-865E ← 虝 [U+865D] CJK Unified Ideographs 號 → [U+865F]

Translingual

Han character

虞 (radical 141, 虍+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜心口一大 (YPRMK) or 卜心口女大 (YPRVK), four-corner 2128₁, composition ⿸虍吳(HTK) or ⿸虍呉(J) or ⿸虍吴(GV))

Derived characters

• 噳, 澞, 𡑾, 𡢢, 𪝭, 𪩽, 𦾚, 𥵂, 𩦢, 鸆, 𪋬

References

• KangXi: page 1074, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32723
• Dae Jaweon: page 1543, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2827, character 2
• Unihan data for U+865E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		虞
variant forms		𠈌 (ancient form) 𩦢 partial 𮓥 (historical variant)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (吴) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
鋘	*ŋʷaː, *ŋʷraː
麌	*ŋʷaː, *ŋʷaʔ
祦	*ŋaː
誤	*ŋʷaːs
悞	*ŋʷaːs
娛	*ŋʷaːs, *ŋʷa
虞	*ŋʷa
澞	*ŋʷa
鸆	*ŋʷa
俣	*ŋʷaʔ
噳	*ŋʷaʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): gû

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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)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gû
    • Tâi-lô: gû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: guu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /gu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /gu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /gu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /gu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /gu²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɨo/▼

Rime
Character	虞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	虞俱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋio/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuə̆/
Li Rong	/ŋio/
Wang Li	/ŋĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ʷ(r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋʷa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	虞	虞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ ngju ›	‹ ngju ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ʷ(r)a/	/*[ŋ]ʷ(r)a/
English	foresee	gamester; forester
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	虞
Reading #	1/1
No.	13103
Phonetic component	吴
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ŋʷa/

Definitions

虞

1. concerned about, anxious, worried
2. fear, danger, risk
3. to deceive
4. an ancient people of China, led by Shun
5. their state
6. the capital of the state
7. A surname​.

Compounds

• 不虞 (bùyú)
• 堪虞 (kānyú)

• 無虞／无虞 (wúyú)
• 虞美人 (yúměirén)

• 騶虞／驺虞 (zōuyú)

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Japanese

Kanji

虞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぐ (gu)
• Kun: おそれ (osore, 虞, Jōyō); うれえる (ureeru, 虞える); おもんぱかる (omonpakaru, 虞る)

Noun

虞 (hiragana おそれ, rōmaji osore)

1. Alternative form of 恐れ

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Korean

Hanja

虞 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

虞 (ngu)

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