歈

歈 U+6B48, 歈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B48 ← 歇 [U+6B47] CJK Unified Ideographs 歉 → [U+6B49]

Translingual

Han character

歈 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人弓弓人 (ONNO), four-corner 8728₀, composition ⿰俞欠)

1. songs

Derived characters

• 𢶖, 𢋅, 𤻍

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 570, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16143
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2146, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6B48

Chinese

trad.		歈
simp. #		歈

Glyph origin

	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

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

Etymology

Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan གླུ (glu), Mru [script needed] (klö, “song, melody”), Burmese ကျူး (kyu:, “to make melodious sounds”) (Löffler, 1966) & ကြိုး (krui:, “a genre of Burmese classical music”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	歈	歈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	羊朱切	度侯切
Baxter	yu	duw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨo/	/dəu/
Pan Wuyun	/jio/	/dəu/
Shao Rongfen	/io/	/dəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆/	/dəw/
Li Rong	/io/	/du/
Wang Li	/jĭu/	/dəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯u/	/dʱə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú	tóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4	tau4

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ duw ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁo/
English	a kind of song
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	歈	歈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15838	15867
Phonetic component	俞	俞
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	頭	逾
Old Chinese	/*l'oː/	/*lo/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴
    • Yale: yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yu, duw

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤo/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'oː/, /*lo/

Definitions

歈

1. (literary) song

   • 宮庭震驚，發激楚些。吳歈蔡謳，奏大呂些。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     宫庭震惊，发激楚些。吴歈蔡讴，奏大吕些。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Gōngtíng zhènjīng, fā jīchǔ xiē. Wúyú Cài'ōu, zòu Dàlǚ xiē. [Pinyin]

     The palaces and courts shook and quaked: they sounded out 'Rousing Chu', Wu songs and Cai lays; they played the Dalü.

2. (literary) happy; joyful

Compounds

• 吳歈 / 吴歈
• 擨歈 (yéyú)
• 歋歈 (yéyú)