禹
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See also: 䖝
Translingual
[edit]Han character
[edit]禹 (Kangxi radical 114, 禸+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹中月戈 (HLBI), four-corner 20427, composition ⿻⿱丿口禸)
- Yu the Great, legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty
Derived characters
[edit]- 偊, 㙖, 𡟥, 𡥶, 𢯺, 渪, 𨺲, 𨕘, 𣈭, 楀, 𪹋, 𤘐, 瑀, 䄔, 𦞇, 𥈋, 𰨰, 竬, 𦔊, 聥, 蝺, 踽, 𫒳, 𩘉, 𪑴, 齲(𮯌/龋)
- 𥝀, 鄅, 𬆪, 𩀌, 𩔔, 㙑, 㝢, 萭, 𰨚, 𥯔, 䨞, 𥝊, 属, 𢉠, 𫭎, 𰍞, 𬍿
References
[edit]- Kangxi Dictionary: page 848, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24885
- Dae Jaweon: page 1269, character 23
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 39, character 11
- Unihan data for U+79B9
Chinese
[edit]trad. | 禹 | |
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simp. # | 禹 | |
alternative forms | 𰁻 |
Glyph origin
[edit]Historical forms of the character 禹 | ||||||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Spring and Autumn | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) | |
Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Qin slip script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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The Shuowen interprets the character as pictographic (象形) of an animal. The bronze-script character clearly shows the 虫 component.
Etymology
[edit]- insect
- Compare Proto-Tibeto-Burman *was (“honey, bee”) (Benedict, 1972) or semantically closer Proto-Waic *wak "insect" (Schuessler, 2007), the latter from Proto-Palaungic *ʋaːk (“insect, worm”) (Sidwell, 2015).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄩˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yǔ
- Wade–Giles: yü3
- Yale: yǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeu
- Palladius: юй (juj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /y²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: jyu5
- Yale: yúh
- Cantonese Pinyin: jy5
- Guangdong Romanization: yu5
- Sinological IPA (key): /jyː¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: hjuX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷaʔ/
Definitions
[edit]禹
- (Chinese mythology) Yu the Great (the legendary king associated with a flood myth and the foundation of the Xia dynasty)
- ‡ insect
Compounds
[edit]References
[edit]- “禹”, 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–
- Southern Min
- “Query for 禹”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
Japanese
[edit]Kanji
[edit]禹
Readings
[edit]Compounds
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Kanji in this term |
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禹 |
う Hyōgai |
on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 禹 (MC hjuX).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- Yu the Great, legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty in ancient China
Further reading
[edit]禹 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja
Yu the Great on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Xia Dynasty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Korean
[edit]Hanja
[edit]禹 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)
- (성씨) a surname
- (大禹) Yu the Great
- (임금) king
- (벌레) worm
- (곡척) steel square
Usage notes
[edit]- 禹라는 문자는 본래 도마뱀이나 악어, 용의 모습을 그린 상형문자로, 우의 기원은 황하에 살던 물의 신이라고 보기도 한다.[출처 필요]
- 우 임금 禹(우)
- 김경일, 한자교실, 바다출판사, 1999.
- 더듬이와 꼬리가 긴 곤충 종류의 상형문. 아마도 토템 대상인 듯하다. 역사가 긴 부족.
Vietnamese
[edit]Han character
[edit]- 夏禹 Hạ Vũ
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References
[edit]- Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
- Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
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