愈

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See also: 癒 and 瘉
愈 U+6108, 愈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6108
← 愇
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 愉 →

愈 U+FA88, 愈
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA88
← 慎
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 憎 →

Translingual

Han character

愈 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人一月心 (OMBP), four-corner 80332, composition ⿱俞心(GHTV) or ⿱兪心(JK))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 394, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10904
  • Dae Jaweon: page 730, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2322, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+6108

Chinese

trad. 愈
simp. # 愈
alternative forms 俞

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • lú - vernacular;
    • ū/ú - literary.
Rime
Character 愈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以主切
Baxter yuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jioX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/juə̆X/
Li
Rong 		/ioX/
Wang
Li 		/jĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jyu5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 愈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yuX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*loʔ/
English increase

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 愈
Reading # 1/1
No. 15877
Phonetic
component 		俞
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		庾
Old
Chinese 		/*loʔ/

Definitions

愈

  1. more and more; even more
  2. (formal) to excel; to surpass; to outdo
  3. a surname: Yu

Synonyms

  • (more and more):
  • (to excel):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 愈 – see 癒 (“to recover”).
(This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 癒).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

愈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. healing

Readings

Definitions

Kanji in this term
愈
いよいよ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 愈 – see the following entry.
【いよいよ】
more and more; increasingly
finally; at last
indeed; really; no doubt
Alternative spellings
愈々, 弥々
(This term, 愈, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

愈 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

愈: Hán Nôm readings: rủ

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