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U+516A, 兪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-516A

[U+5169]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+516B]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 11, +7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人一月女 (OMBV), four-corner 80221 or 80237, composition (T) or 𠓛⿰⿵(GJK))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 126, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1437
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 155, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+516A

Chinese

Glyph origin

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Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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In oracle bone script, it was likely a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic + phonetic inverted (OC *lɯw), hence a form vaguely similar to . It's also possible that the phonetic component is instead an ancient form of (OC *ʔsoːɡ).

In bronze inscriptions, corrupted into , and the bottom-right subcomponent of 甲 gradually corrupted into two lines (now written ). The upper-right subcomponent (vaguely similar to 口) was eventually stylized as () and moved to the top of the character in bamboo slips. Eventually, was further corrupted into , arriving at the modern form .

Unrelated to , , , and .

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to hollow a tree to make a boat; yes; indeed; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): (yu)
  • Kun: しかり (shikari)

Korean

Hanja

(yu) (hangeul , revised yu, McCuneReischauer yu)

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