魷

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See also: 鱿
魷 U+9B77, 魷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B77
← 魶
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 魸 →

Translingual

Han character

魷 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+4, 15 strokes, cangjie input 弓火戈大山 (NFIKU), four-corner 23314, composition ⿰魚尤)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1467, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46030
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4676, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+9B77

Chinese

trad. 魷
simp. 鱿
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Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 尤 (OC *ɢʷɯ).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Definitions

魷

  1. Only used in 魷魚／鱿鱼 (yóuyú, “squid”); also used as its short form.

Compounds

References

  • “魷”, 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), “鱿”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 289.

Japanese

Kanji

魷

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ゆう (yū)
  • Kan-on: ゆう (yū)

Vietnamese

Han character

魷: Hán Nôm readings: vưu, vâu

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