兪

See also: 俞

兪 U+516A, 兪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-516A ← 兩 [U+5169] CJK Unified Ideographs 八 → [U+516B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 偸, 𫥓, 喩, 堬, 婾, 崳, 㡏, 𢔢, 揄, 渝, 㺄, 隃, 逾, 𣈥, 楡, 毺, 𪹊, 牏, 𤚎, 瑜, 腧, 䄖, 𤭷, 𭼄, 睮, 䃋, 𥠕, 𮄶, 褕, 緰, 羭, 𦖭, 𦩞, 蝓, 䜽, 𧱬, 貐, 𧼯, 踰, 䠼, 䤅, 鍮, 𪟺, 䩱, 䬔, 𩜶, 𪱎, 騟, 𪉰, 𪍍(𱋠)
• 㓱, 鄃, 𢾄, 𣂮, 歈, 毹, 𫖾, 㼶, 覦, 𪃎, 𡩗, 嵛, 萮, 𣈯, 𠕦, 𦋢, 𬲂, 窬, 𬰅, 𭵙, 𠐙, 𪎨, 㢏, 瘉, 䵉, 匬, 𨵦, 𭌁, 𨽙, 𣤔, 𭭖

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

Historical forms of the character 兪
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

In oracle bone script, it was likely a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 凡 + phonetic inverted 由 (OC *lɯw), hence a form vaguely similar to 甲. It's also possible that the phonetic component is instead an ancient form of 鏃 (OC *ʔsoːɡ).

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

Unrelated to 前, 刖, 巜, and 巛.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 兪 – see 俞 (“to approve; to consent; yes; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 俞).

Japanese

Kanji

兪

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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

Korean

Hanja

兪 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu)

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