憂

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See also: 忧
憂 U+6182, 憂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6182
← 憁
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 憃 →

Translingual

Han character

憂 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月心竹水 (MBPHE), four-corner 10247, composition ⿱㥑夂(GJKV) or ⿱㥑夊(HT))

Derived characters

Related characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 401, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11170
  • Dae Jaweon: page 741, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2341, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+6182

Chinese

trad. 憂/懮
simp. 忧*
alternative forms
 
懮
㥑
𢝊
𢟜
𢚧
懮
㥑
𢝊
𢟜
𢚧
𠮕
𨗫
𩕂
𠪍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 憂
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (憂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
憂 *qu
優 *qu
瀀 *qu
櫌 *qu
鄾 *qu
嚘 *qu
耰 *qu
獶 *qu
纋 *qu
懮 *quʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qu) : phonetic 㥑 () + semantic 夊.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 憂
Mandarin Beijing /iou⁵⁵/
Harbin /iou⁴⁴/
Tianjin /iou²¹/
Jinan /iou²¹³/
Qingdao /iou²¹³/
Zhengzhou /iou²⁴/
Xi'an /iou²¹/
Xining /iɯ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /iəu⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /iou³¹/
Ürümqi /iɤu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /iəu⁵⁵/
Chengdu /iəu⁵⁵/
Guiyang /iəu⁵⁵/
Kunming /iəu⁴⁴/
Nanjing /iəɯ³¹/
Hefei /iɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /iəu¹¹/
Pingyao /iəu¹³/
Hohhot /iəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iɤ⁵³/
Suzhou /iɤ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔiø³³/
Wenzhou /j̠au³³/
Hui Shexian /iu³¹/
Tunxi /iu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /iəu³³/
Xiangtan /iəɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /iu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /iu¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʒiu¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jɐu⁵³/
Nanning /jɐu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jɐu⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /iu⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /iu⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /iu³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /iu²³/
Rime
Character 憂
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於求切
Baxter 'juw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔɨu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔiu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔuw/
Li
Rong 		/ʔiu/
Wang
Li 		/ĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jau1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 憂
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yōu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔjuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔ(r)u/
English grief, grieved

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 憂
Reading # 1/1
No. 15493
Phonetic
component 		憂
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		憂
Old
Chinese 		/*qu/

Definitions

憂

  1. sad; grieved
  2. grief; melancholy

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

憂

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. anxiety, worry
  2. mourning

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
憂
う
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Stem of classical adjective 憂し (ushi), modern 憂い (ui, “gloomy, sad”).

Noun

憂(う) • (u) 

  1. grief, pain, sorrow

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

憂 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

憂: Hán Nôm readings: ưu, âu

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