尤
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Translingual
Han character
尤 (Kangxi radical 43, 尢+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 戈大山 (IKU), four-corner 43010, composition ⿺尢丶)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 298, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7543
- Dae Jaweon: page 593, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 551, character 14
- Unihan data for U+5C24
Chinese
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Glyph origin
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Pictogram (象形) – hand with a wart. Original form of 疣 and 肬.
Etymology
Sino-Tibetan; compare Tibetan ཡུས (yus, “blame, charge, accusation”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): jau4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yù
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): iu2
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yóu
- Wade–Giles: yu2
- Yale: yóu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: you
- Palladius: ю (ju)
- Sinological IPA (key): /joʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: jau4
- Yale: yàuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: jau4
- Guangdong Romanization: yeo4
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɐu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yù
- Hakka Romanization System: iuˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: yiu2
- Sinological IPA: /i̯u¹¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yù
- Hakka Romanization System: (r)iuˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: yiu2
- Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯u¹¹/
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: iu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /iu¹³/
- (Putian, Xianyou)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: hjuw
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʷə/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷɯ/
Definitions
尤
- fault; flaw
- to fault; to blame
- 效尤 ― xiàoyóu ― to follow bad examples (literally, "to imitate the blameworthy")
- (literary) strange; special; outstanding
- (literary) especially; particularly; even more
- a surname
Compounds
- 不怨不尤
- 以儆效尤 (yǐjǐngxiàoyóu)
- 勒尤 (lèyóu)
- 天生尤物
- 尤人
- 尤其 (yóuqí)
- 尤悔
- 尤態 / 尤态
- 尤有甚者
- 尤殢 / 尤𣨼
- 尤物 (yóuwù)
- 尤甚 (yóushèn)
- 尤異 / 尤异 (yóuyì)
- 尤至
- 尤詬 / 尤诟
- 尤違 / 尤违
- 尤里西斯
- 尤金 (Yóujīn)
- 尤雲殢雨 / 尤云𣨼雨
- 忍尤含詬 / 忍尤含诟
- 怨天尤人 (yuàntiān-yóurén)
- 怨尤
- 悔尤
- 愆尤 (qiānyóu)
- 拔尤
- 效尤 (xiàoyóu)
- 殊豔尤態 / 殊艳尤态
- 殢雨尤雲 / 𣨼雨尤云
- 殢雲尤雨 / 𣨼云尤雨
- 淑尤
- 無恥之尤 / 无耻之尤 (wúchǐzhīyóu)
- 石尤風 / 石尤风
- 競相效尤 / 竞相效尤
- 群起效尤
- 蚩尤 (Chīyóu)
- 蚩尤戲 / 蚩尤戏 (Chīyóuxì)
- 蚩尤旗 (Chīyóuqí)
- 起而效尤
- 逢尤
- 離尤 / 离尤
References
- “Query for 尤”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
- “尤”, 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), “尤”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 288.
Japanese
Kanji
尤
Readings
- Go-on: う (u)
- Kan-on: ゆう (yū)←いう (iu, historical)
- Kun: とがめる (togameru, 尤める)、とが (toga)、もっとも (mottomo, 尤も)、すぐれる (sugureru, 尤れる)
- Nanori: まさる (masaru)
Korean
Hanja
尤 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u)
Vietnamese
Han character
- (Rare) A Vietnamese surname