祐

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See also: 佑
祐 U+7950, 祐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7950
← 祏
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 祑 →

祐 U+FA4F, 祐
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA4F
← 祈
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 祖 →

Translingual

Han character

祐 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈火大口 (IFKR), four-corner 34260, composition ⿰礻右(GHTJ) or ⿰示右(K))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24652
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1259, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2391, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7950

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 祐
alternative forms 右
佑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (又) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絠 *kɯːʔ
醢 *qʰɯːʔ
珛 *qʰʷɯs
栯 *ɢʷɯʔ, *qʷɯ
有 *ɢʷɯʔ
友 *ɢʷɯʔ
右 *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs
宥 *ɢʷɯs
囿 *ɢʷɯs, *ɡʷɯ
侑 *ɢʷɯs
酭 *ɢʷɯs
姷 *ɢʷɯs
又 *ɢʷɯs
佑 *ɢʷɯs
祐 *ɢʷɯs
賄 *qʰʷɯːʔ
蛕 *qʰʷɯːʔ, *ɡʷɯː
烠 *ɡʷɯː
倄 *ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
鮪 *ɢʷɯʔ
洧 *ɢʷɯʔ
痏 *ɢʷɯʔ
郁 *qʷɯ
戫 *qʷɯ
哊 *ɡʷɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢʷɯs) : semantic 礻 (“spirit”) + phonetic 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs).

Etymology

Exoactive of 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs, “right (side)”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 祐
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 于救切
Baxter hjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦiuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦuwH/
Li
Rong 		/ɣiuH/
Wang
Li 		/ɣĭəuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/i̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jau6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祐 祐
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yòu yòu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hjuwX › ‹ hjuwH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷəʔ/ /*ʷəʔ-s/
English help, blessing help, blessing

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 祐
Reading # 1/1
No. 15606
Phonetic
component 		又
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		宥
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷɯs/

Definitions

祐

  1. (of divinity) to assist; to bless; to protect
  2. Alternative form of 佑 (yòu, “to assist”)
  3. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 祐
Kyūjitai
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祐
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or
祐+&#xFE00;?
祐󠄀
祐+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
祐󠄃
祐+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

祐

(Jinmeiyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 祐)

  1. divine help, divine protection (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    Synonym: 佑

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
祐
ゆう
Jinmeiyō
kan'on
Alternative spelling
祐 (kyūjitai)

*/ɣɨu/ → /jɨu/ → /juː/

From Middle Chinese 祐 (MC hjuwH).

Proper noun

祐(ゆう) • (Yū) ←いう (Iu)?

  1. a surname
  2. a male or female given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
祐
Jinmeiyō
irregular
Alternative spelling
祐 (kyūjitai)

Nominalization of classical adjective 広し (hiroshi), modern 広い (hiroi, “vast, wide”).

Proper noun

祐(ひろし) • (Hiroshi) 

  1. a male given name

References

  1. ^ “祐”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1553 (paper), page 828 (digital)
  3. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 888 (paper), page 457 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

祐 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

  1. good fortune, to help

Vietnamese

Han character

祐: Hán Nôm readings: hựu, hữu

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