呦

呦	U+5466, 呦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5466

← 呥
[U+5465]

CJK Unified Ideographs

呧 →
[U+5467]

Translingual

Han character

呦 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口女戈尸 (RVIS), four-corner 6402₇, composition ⿰口幼)

the bleating of the deer

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 181, character 32
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3437
Dae Jaweon: page 400, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 610, character 10
Unihan data for U+5466

Chinese

simp. and trad.		呦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 呦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (幼) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
黝	qliw, qrɯwʔ
坳	qrɯːw, qrɯːws
軪	qrɯːw, qrɯːws
眑	qrɯːw, qrɯwʔ
拗	qrɯːwʔ, qrɯːws
鴢	qrɯːwʔ, qɯːwʔ
靿	qrɯːwʔ, qrɯːws
狕	*qrɯːwʔ
袎	*qrɯːws
怮	qɯːw, qrɯw, qrɯw, qrɯwʔ
窈	*qiːwʔ
苭	*qɯːwʔ
泑	qrɯw, qrɯwʔ
呦	*qrɯw
蚴	*qrɯwʔ
幼	*qrɯws

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yōu (you¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jau¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): iu¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yōu
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: you
  - Wade–Giles: yu¹
  - Yale: yōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iou
  - Palladius: ю (ju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jau¹
  - Yale: yāu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jau¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yeo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: iu¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: iu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: iu¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iu
  - Tâi-lô: iu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iw
  - IPA (Xiamen): /iu⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iu³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /iu⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: 'jiw

Rime
Character	呦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	幽 (138)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於虯切
Baxter	'jiw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪu/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɨu/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔieu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjiw/
Li Rong	/ʔiĕu/
Wang Li	/iəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jau¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qrɯw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	呦
Reading #	1/1
No.	15639
Phonetic component	幼
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	幽
Old Chinese	/*qrɯw/

Definitions

呦

an expression of surprise or sudden awareness
呦！你怎麼也來了？ [MSC, trad.]
呦！你怎么也来了？ [MSC, simp.]
Yōu! Nǐ zěnme yě lái le? [Pinyin]
Hey! Fancy seeing you here.

呦，飯糊了！／呦，饭糊了！ ― Yōu, fàn hú le! ― Oh no, the rice is burnt.
(literary) sound of deer (only used in 呦呦 (yōuyōu))

Compounds

呦呦 (yōuyōu)
呦嚄說 / 呦嚄说
咿呦

References

“呦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “呦”, 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

呦

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ゆう (yū)^{←いう (iu, historical)}、ゆ (yu)、おう (ō)^{←あう (au, historical)}、よう (yō)^{←えう (eu, historical)}
Kun: むせぶ (musebu)、さけぶ (sakebu)

Korean

Hanja

呦 (eum 유 (yu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

呦: Hán Nôm readings: u, ạo, ao, ào

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