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Translingual
Han character
毓 (Kangxi radical 80, 毋+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人卜卜戈山 (OYYIU), four-corner 80513, composition ⿰每㐬)
- give birth to
- bring up, educate
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 590, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16740
- Dae Jaweon: page 982, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2384, character 4
- Unihan data for U+6BD3
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 育
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*luɡ
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| 毓
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*luɡ
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| 棛
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*luɡ
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| 錥
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*luɡ
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| 焴
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*luɡ
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| 淯
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*luɡ
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| 蜟
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*luɡ
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| 堉
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*luɡ
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| 逳
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*luɡ
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| 蘛
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*luɡ
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Pictogram (象形) : 每 + 㐬 – a woman with a bamboo hairpin (to indicate that she is an adult) 每 while giving birth. The newborn baby is head down on the right 㐬. The top part of 㐬 is 子 inverted, an abstracted body with a head at the bottom; compare 充. The three lines (川) below head are amniotic fluid coming out.
A later alternative form is 育, in which the amniotic fluid disappears.
Alternately considered a Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *luɡ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : semantic 每 (“woman”) + phonetic 𠫓 (, “child”) + semantic 川 (“amniotic fluid”).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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毓
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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yù
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ yuwk ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*m-quk/
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| English
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to produce
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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毓
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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15985
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Phonetic
component
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育
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Rime
group
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覺
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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育
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Old
Chinese
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/*luɡ/
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| Notes
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說文同育，甲金文即象母產子
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Definitions
毓
- (formal) to give birth; to procreate; to foster; to rear; to bring up
- alt. forms: 育
- a surname
Compounds
References
- “毓”, 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–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “毓”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 293.
Japanese
Kanji
毓
(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 育)
- kyūjitai form of 育
Readings
Korean
Hanja
毓 (eum 육 (yuk))
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Vietnamese
Han character
毓: Hán Nôm readings: dục
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References