尿

尿 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸水 (SE), four-corner 7723₂, composition ⿸尸水)

• 㳮 (also its variant form)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7651
• Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 966, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5C3F

• Unihan data for U+F9BD

Historical forms of the character 尿
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) in the oracle bone script - an urinating man. In the seal script, it became an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 尾 (“tail”) + 水 (“water”). 尾 later simplified into 尸 (“body”).

Related to Proto-Tai *niəwᴮ (“urine”) (Schuessler, 2007).

尿

1. urine (Classifier: 泡 m; 篤／笃 c)
2. to urinate; to pee
3. (dialectal Mandarin, Jin) to pay attention to someone
4. (dialectal Mandarin) to yield to; to give up; to admit defeat
5. (Tianjin Mandarin) to fear; to be afraid of (the other party in a fight)
6. (Tianjin Mandarin) to lose heart; to be discouraged; to be cowardly
7. (Tianjin Mandarin) courage; guts
8. (Ürümqi Mandarin) smug; cocky; pleased with oneself

• (urine): 小便 (xiǎobiàn); (Wu, dated) 小溲
• (to urinate):

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

尿

1. (colloquial) urine
2. (colloquial) to urinate; to pee
3. (dialectal Mandarin) bad; spineless; poor; damned
4. (Wuhan Mandarin) to fail; to break down
5. (Wuhan Mandarin) ugly; plain-looking
6. (Wuhan Mandarin) wantonly; arbitrarily; carelessly

• (Mandarin) 噓噓／嘘嘘 (xūxū)
• (Cantonese) 殊殊 (syu4 syu4-2)

(Jōyō kanji)

1. urine

• Go-on: にょう (nyō, Jōyō)^{←ねう (neu, historical)}
• Kan-on: じょう (jō)^{←でう (deu, historical)}
• Kun: ゆまり (yumari, 尿)、ゆばり (yubari, 尿)、よばり (yobari)、いばり (ibari, 尿)、ばり (bari, 尿)、し (shi)、しし (shishi)、しい (shī)、しと (shito)

Compound of 湯 (yu, “warm water”) +‎ 放り (mari, “excretion”), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 放(ま)る (maru, “to excrete”).^[1][2][3]

First cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.^[1]

• IPA^(key):

尿(ゆまり) • (yumari) 

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) urine

/jumari/ → /jubari/

From 尿 (yumari). Bilabial nasal /m/ loses nasality, becoming /b/. Likely due to lexicalization of the term, and a loss of awareness of the origins of the mari portion.^[1]

First cited to the Wamyō Ruijushō of roughly 934 CE.^[1]

• IPA^(key):

尿(ゆばり) • (yubari) 

1. urine

/jumari/ → /jubari/ → */jʉbari/ → /ibari/

Shift from 尿 (yubari).^[1][3]

Appears in a text from roughly 950 CE.^[1]

• (Tokyo) いばり (Heiban – )^[3][4][5]
• IPA^(key):

尿(いばり) • (ibari) 

1. urine

Shortening of yubari^[1][2][3] or ibari.^[1][2][5]

First cited to the early 1300s.^[1]

• (Tokyo) ばり (Atamadaka – )^[5]
• IPA^(key):

尿(ばり) • (bari) 

1. urine

Unknown. Possibly onomatopoeia.

First cited to the Utsubo Monogatari of roughly 999 CE.^[1]

• IPA^(key):

尿(しと) • (shito) 

1. (archaic) urine

From baby talk, as a reduplication of the initial shi- in shito.^[1][2][3]

First cited to a text from the late Muromachi period (late 1500s).^[1]

• IPA^(key):

尿(しし) • (shishi) 

1. (archaic, childish) urine

/ɕito/ → /ɕi/ → /ɕiː/

From baby talk.^[1][2][3] From shito, formed by dropping the second syllable and lengthening the vowel.^[1][2]

/ɕiɕi/ → /ɕiːɕiː/ → /ɕiː/

Alternatively, from shishi, formed by lengthening the vowel and dropping the second syllable.^[2]

First cited to a text from the late 1700s.^[1]

• IPA^(key):

尿(しい) • (shī) 

1. (archaic, childish) urine

/neu/ → /njoː/

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 尿 (MC newH, “urine”).

First cited to a text from 1275.^[1]

• (Tokyo) にょー (Atamadaka – )^[3][4][5]
• IPA^(key):

尿(にょう) • (nyō) ^{←ねう (neu)?}

1. urine

From Middle Chinese 尿 (MC newH). Recorded as Middle Korean 뇨〯 (nyǒ) (Yale: nyo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

尿

Wikisource

尿 (eumhun 오줌 뇨 (ojum nyo), word-initial (South Korea) 오줌 요 (ojum yo))

1. hanja form^? of 뇨/요 (“urine”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

尿: Hán Nôm readings: niếu, niệu

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