喻

喻 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人一弓 (ROMN), four-corner 6802₁, composition ⿰口俞(GT))

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 657, character 8
• Unihan data for U+55BB

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *los): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 俞 (OC *l̥ʰus, *lo).

喻

1. (alt. form 諭／谕) to inform; to notify; to explain
2. to understand; to know

   • 子曰：「君子喻於義，小人喻於利。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     子曰：「君子喻于义，小人喻于利。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Zǐ yuē: “Jūnzǐ yù yú yì, xiǎorén yù yú lì.” [Pinyin]

     The gentleman comprehends according to right, the small man comprehends according to profit.

   • 低頭獨長嘆，此嘆無人喻：
     一叢深色花，十戶中人賦。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     低头独长叹，此叹无人喻：
     一丛深色花，十户中人赋。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 810,白居易 (Bai Juyi),《買花》, translation based on Arthur Waley's work

     Dītóu dú chángtàn, cǐ tàn wúrén yù:
     Yī cóng shēnsè huā, shí hù zhōngrén fù. [Pinyin]

     He bowed his head and let out a deep sigh, yet nobody else was able to read his thoughts:
     "A bouquet of crimson flowers costs the sum of the taxes of ten middle-class households."

3. to draw an analogy; to liken; to use a metaphor
4. a surname

喻

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 愉 (yú, “happy”)

• “喻”, 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), “喻”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 292.

(Hyōgai kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 喩)

1. Extended shinjitai form of 喩

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kun: さとす (satosu, 喻す)、さとる (satoru, 喻る)、たとえる (tatoeru, 喻える)
• Nanori: さとり (satori)

喻 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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喻: Hán Việt readings: dụ^[1][2][3][4], du^[3]
喻: Nôm readings: dụ, dầu, dẫu, dỗ, nhủ, rủ, dẩu

1. chữ Hán form of dụ (“allegory, metaphor, to explain”)