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Translingual
Han character
囿 (Kangxi radical 31, 囗+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 田大月 (WKB), four-corner 60227, composition ⿴囗有)
- pen up
- limit, constrain
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 218, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4756
- Dae Jaweon: page 446, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 717, character 20
- Unihan data for U+56FF
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 絠
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*kɯːʔ
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| 醢
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*qʰɯːʔ
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| 珛
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*qʰʷɯs
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| 栯
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*ɢʷɯʔ, *qʷɯ
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| 有
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*ɢʷɯʔ
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| 友
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*ɢʷɯʔ
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| 右
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*ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs
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| 宥
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*ɢʷɯs
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| 囿
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*ɢʷɯs, *ɡʷɯ
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| 侑
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*ɢʷɯs
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| 酭
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*ɢʷɯs
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| 姷
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*ɢʷɯs
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| 又
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*ɢʷɯs
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| 佑
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*ɢʷɯs
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| 祐
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*ɢʷɯs
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| 賄
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*qʰʷɯːʔ
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| 蛕
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*qʰʷɯːʔ, *ɡʷɯː
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| 烠
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*ɡʷɯː
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| 倄
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*ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
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| 鮪
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*ɢʷɯʔ
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| 洧
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*ɢʷɯʔ
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| 痏
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*ɢʷɯʔ
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| 郁
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*qʷɯ
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| 戫
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*qʷɯ
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| 哊
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*ɡʷɯ
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Etymology
Related to 國 (OC *kʷɯːɡ, “country, nation”); see there for more.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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囿
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囿
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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yòu
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yòu
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ hjuwH ›
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‹ hjuwk ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ʷək-s/
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/*ʷək/
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| English
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park, garden
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park, garden
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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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囿
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囿
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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| No.
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15599
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15618
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Phonetic
component
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又
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又
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Rime
group
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之
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之
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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宥
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囿
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Old
Chinese
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/*ɢʷɯs/
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/*ɡʷɯ/
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Definitions
囿
- (literary) park
- 皇囿 ― wong4 jau6 ― old name of King's Park, Hong Kong
王在靈囿，麀鹿攸伏。麀鹿濯濯、白鳥翯翯。王在靈沼，於牣魚躍。
王在灵囿，麀鹿攸伏。麀鹿濯濯、白鸟翯翯。王在灵沼，于牣鱼跃。 - From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Wáng zài língyòu, yōulù yōu fú. Yōulù zhuózhuó, bái niǎo hèhè. Wáng zài líng zhǎo, yú rèn yú yuè.
- The king was in the numinous park, where the does were lying down; The does, so sleek and fat; with the white birds glistening. The king was by the numinous pond; - how full was it of fishes leaping about!
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
囿
(Hyōgai kanji)
- game preserve
- pasture
- garden
Readings
Korean
Hanja
囿 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu)
- pen up
- limit, constrain
Vietnamese
Han character
囿: Hán Nôm readings: hữu
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