淤

See also: 瘀

淤	U+6DE4, 淤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DE4

← 淣
[U+6DE3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

淥 →
[U+6DE5]

Translingual

Han character

淤 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水卜尸卜 (EYSY), four-corner 3813₃, composition ⿰氵於)

mud, sediment
clog up, silt up

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 630, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17665
Dae Jaweon: page 1033, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1660, character 1
Unihan data for U+6DE4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		淤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
閼	qran, qeːn, qaːd, qad
菸	qeːn, qas
於	qaː, qa
淤	qa, qas
箊	*qa
唹	*qa
扵	*qa
瘀	*qas
棜	*qas

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qa, *qas): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 於 (OC *qaː, *qa).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yū (yu¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄩ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu¹ / jyu² / jyu³
Eastern Min (BUC): ṳ̆
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): y¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ir / u / i

(Teochew, Peng'im): e³ / u³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yū
  - Zhuyin: ㄩ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yu
  - Wade–Giles: yü¹
  - Yale: yū
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iu
  - Palladius: юй (juj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jyu¹ / jyu² / jyu³
  - Yale: yū / yú / yu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jy¹ / jy² / jy³
  - Guangdong Romanization: yu¹ / yu² / yu³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː⁵⁵/, /jyː³⁵/, /jyː³³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ṳ̆
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: y¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ṳ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: y¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ir
  - Tâi-lô: ir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɯ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: u
  - Tâi-lô: u
  - Phofsit Daibuun: w
  - IPA (Xiamen): /u⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Longyan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: i
  - Tâi-lô: i
  - Phofsit Daibuun: y
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /i⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Longyan): /i³³⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: e³ / u³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ṳ̀ / ù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɯ²¹³/, /u²¹³/

Middle Chinese: 'jo, 'joH

Rime
Character	淤	淤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	央居切	依倨切
Baxter	'jo	'joH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨʌ/	/ʔɨʌ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɔ/	/ʔiɔ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiɔ/	/ʔiɔ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨə̆/	/ʔɨə̆^H/
Li Rong	/ʔiɔ/	/ʔiɔ^H/
Wang Li	/ĭo/	/ĭo^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wo/	/ʔi̯wo^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yū	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu¹	jyu³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qa/, /*qas/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	淤	淤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15811	15817
Phonetic component	於	於
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	於	飫
Old Chinese	/*qa/	/*qas/

Definitions

淤

silt

Compounds

放淤
淤塞 (yūsè)
淤泥 (yūní)
淤溉
淤滯 / 淤滞
淤積 / 淤积 (yūjī)
淤血 (yūxuè)
淤閼 / 淤阏 (yū'è)

References

郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “淤”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 58.

Japanese

Kanji

淤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): よ (yo)、お (o)
Kun: どろ (doro)

Korean

Hanja

淤 (eum 어 (eo))

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Vietnamese

Han character

淤: Hán Nôm readings: ứa

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