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Translingual
Han character
隅 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓中田中月 (NLWLB), four-corner 76227, composition ⿰阝禺)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1356, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41743
- Dae Jaweon: page 1860, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4145, character 1
- Unihan data for U+9685
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 齵
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*ŋoː, *ŋo
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| 偶
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*ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
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| 耦
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*ŋoːʔ
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| 藕
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*ŋoːʔ
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| 髃
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*ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
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| 蕅
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*ŋoːʔ
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| 愚
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*ŋo
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| 隅
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*ŋo
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| 禺
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*ŋo, *ŋos
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| 湡
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*ŋo
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| 堣
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*ŋo
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| 嵎
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*ŋo
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| 鰅
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*ŋo, *ŋoŋ
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| 鍝
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*ŋo
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| 遇
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*ŋos
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| 寓
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*ŋos
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| 庽
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*ŋos
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| 媀
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*ŋos
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| 喁
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*ŋoŋ
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| 顒
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*ŋoŋ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋo) : semantic 𨸏 (“mound”) + phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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隅
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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yú
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ ngju ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ŋ(r)o/
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| English
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angle, corner
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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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隅
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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15920
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Phonetic
component
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禺
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Rime
group
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侯
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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Old
Chinese
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/*ŋo/
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Definitions
隅
- corner; nook; remote place
- edge; border
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
隅
(Jōyō kanji)
- corner
- nook
Readings
Etymology
| For pronunciation and definitions of 隅 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 隅, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Korean
Hanja
隅 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
隅: Hán Nôm readings: ngung, ngong
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