禺

Translingual

Han character

禺 (Kangxi radical 114, 禸+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 田中月戈 (WLBI), four-corner 6042₇, composition ⿻日禸)

Derived characters

• 偶 愚 遇 寓 隅 嵎 藕

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 848, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24886
• Dae Jaweon: page 1269, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2533, character 4
• Unihan data for U+79BA

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Unclear. Shuowen considers it to be an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 甶 (“head of a ghost”) + 禸 (“to trample”) – a kind of monkey.

In the bronze script, the top of the character resembles the head of a ghost (鬼) and the bottom resembles 禹. Zhang et al. (1996) considers this character differentiated (分化) from 禹 and that the character is a pictogram (象形) of a kind of insect with a decorative mark, similar to the one in 萬 (“scorpion”).

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋaːw (“monkey”); compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaaw (“long-tailed / grey monkey”), whence Mizo ngao (“grey monkey”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Definitions

禺

1. ^† a kind of large monkey with a long tail and red eyes

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Definitions

禺

1. ^† area; district
2. ^† time before noon, around 9–11 a.m.
3. ^† Alternative form of 愚 (yú, “foolish”)
4. (～山) Yu (a mountain in Zhejiang, China)
5. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

禺

1. ^† Alternative form of 偶 (ǒu):
   1. to match; to be a pair
   2. statue; figure

Compounds

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Definitions

禺

1. Only used in 禺禺.

References

• “禺”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. long-tailed monkey

Readings

• On (unclassified): ぐう (gū); ぐ (gu)
• Kun: おながさる (onagasaru)

Korean

Hanja

禺 • (ong) (hangeul 옹, revised ong, McCune–Reischauer ong, Yale ong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

禺: Hán Nôm readings: ngung, ngu

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