喻

See also: 喩

喻 U+55BB, 喻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BB ← 喺 [U+55BA] CJK Unified Ideographs 喼 → [U+55BC]

Translingual

Han character

喻 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人一弓 (ROMN), four-corner 6802₁, composition ⿰口俞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 657, character 8
• Unihan data for U+55BB

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Chinese

trad.		喻
simp. #		喻
alternative forms		喩

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／形声, OC *los) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 俞 (OC *l̥ʰus, *lo).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 喻

1. to inform; to notify; to explain
2. to understand; to know

   • 子曰：「君子喻於義，小人喻於利。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子曰：「君子喻于义，小人喻于利。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Zǐ yuē: “Jūnzǐ yù yú yì, xiǎorén yù yú lì.” [Pinyin]

     The gentleman comprehends according to right, the small man comprehends according to profit.

3. to draw an analogy; to liken; to use a metaphor
4. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (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/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 喻

1. Same as 愉 (yú).

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Japanese

Kanji

喻

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Meaning: metaphor

Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆ (yu)
• Kun: さとす (satosu), さとる (satoru), たとえる (tatoeru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

喻: Hán Việt readings: dụ, du
喻: Nôm readings: dụ, dầu, dẫu, dỗ, nhủ, rủ, dẩu

1. chữ Hán form of dụ (“allegory, metaphor, to explain”).