幼

幼 (Kangxi radical 52, 幺+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 女戈大尸 (VIKS), four-corner 2472₇, composition ⿰幺力)

• 坳, 岰, 𰎓, 𫳀, 𢂊, 𢩃, 𣅺, 㶭, 𤤬, 狕, 𤱎, 眑, 𥑑, 𥬓, 苭, 軪, 靿, 䬀, 𩢒, 黝
• 𭄹

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 342, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9193
• Dae Jaweon: page 650, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1093, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5E7C

Historical forms of the character 幼
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 幺 (“tiny”) + 力 (“strength”). 幺 (OC *qiːw) may also act as a phonetic component.

幼

1. (literary, or in compounds) infant; young child
2. (literary, or in compounds) young
3. (literary, or in compounds) immature
4. ^† to love; to take care of (the young)

   老吾老，以及人之老；幼吾幼，以及人之幼。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

   From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

   Lǎo wú lǎo, yǐjí rén zhī lǎo; yòu wú yòu, yǐjí rén zhī yòu.

   Treat with the kindness due to youth the young in your own family, so that the young in the families of others shall be similarly treated.
   (Alternatively: “Respect the elderly in your own family as well as you respect the elderly in other families. Care for your own children as well as you care for others’ children.”)

5. (Cantonese, Southern Min) thin; fine (not coarse)
6. (Southern Min, of food) tender; soft
7. a surname

• (infant):

• (young):

• (thin):

• (tender):

• (antonym(s) of “young”): 老 (lǎo)

幼

1. Used in 幼眇 and 幼妙.

• “幼”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. childish, immature, young
2. infant, young child

• Go-on: ゆう (yū)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)^{←えう (eu, historical)}
• Kun: おさない (osanai, 幼い, Jōyō)^{←をさない (wosanai, 幼い, historical)}、いとけない (itokenai, 幼けない)、おさなびる (osanabiru, 幼びる)
• Nanori: わか (waka)

*/jiɪu/ → /jieu/ → /jeu/ → /joː/

From Middle Chinese 幼 (MC 'jiwH).

• (Tokyo) よー (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

幼(よう) • (yō) ^{←えう (eu)?}

1. childhood, infancy
2. a young child

/wosana/ → /osana/

Stem of classical verb 幼し (osanashi),^[1][2] modern 幼い (osanai, “childish, infantile”).

幼(おさな) • (osana) ^{←をさな (wosana)?}

1. Synonym of 幼子 (osanago): an infant, young child

幼(いと) • (ito) 

1. (archaic) a young child, infant, toddler

   Synonym: 幼児 (yōji)

• 幼(いと)様(さま) (itosama), 幼(いと)様(さん) (itosan)

幼(いと) • (ito) 

1. prefixed to a noun: childish, immature, infantile

• 幼(いと)宮(みや) (itomiya)

From Middle Chinese 幼 (MC 'jiwH).

Recorded as Middle Korean ᅙᅲᇢ〮 (Yale: qyuw) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean 유〯 (yǔ) (Yale: yu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

幼

Wikisource

幼 (eumhun 어릴 유 (eoril yu))

1. hanja form^? of 유 (“childish; immature”)
2. hanja form^? of 유 (“infant; young child”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

幼: Hán Nôm readings: ấu, âu

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