隅

隅	U+9685, 隅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9685

← 隄
[U+9684]

CJK Unified Ideographs

隆 →
[U+9686]

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

𣿃, 𪽹

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

trad.		隅
simp. ^#		隅
2nd round simp.		⿰阝于

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
齵	ŋoː, ŋo
偶	ŋoːʔ, ŋoːs
耦	*ŋoːʔ
藕	*ŋoːʔ
髃	ŋoːʔ, ŋo
蕅	*ŋoːʔ
愚	*ŋo
隅	*ŋo
禺	ŋo, ŋos
湡	*ŋo
堣	*ŋo
嵎	*ŋo
鰅	ŋo, ŋoŋ
鍝	*ŋo
遇	*ŋos
寓	*ŋos
庽	*ŋos
媀	*ŋos
喁	*ŋoŋ
顒	*ŋoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋo): semantic 𨸏 (“mound”) + phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yú (yu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄩˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴ / jyu⁶
Eastern Min (BUC): ngṳ̀
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): gû

(Teochew, Peng'im): ngo⁵
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶gniu / ²gniu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yú
  - Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yú
  - Wade–Giles: yü²
  - Yale: yú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
  - Palladius: юй (juj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jyu⁴ / jyu⁶
  - Yale: yùh / yuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴ / jy⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴ / yu⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/, /jyː²²/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ngṳ̀
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋy⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gû
  - Tâi-lô: gû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: guu
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɡu²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡu²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡu¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɡu²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡu²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ngo⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngô
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋo⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶gniu
  - MiniDict: nyu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³nyy
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /n̠ʲy²³/
- (Northern: Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ²gniu
  - MiniDict: nyu^平
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /n̠ʲy²²³/

Middle Chinese: ngju

Rime
Character	隅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	虞俱切
Baxter	ngju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋio/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuə̆/
Li Rong	/ŋio/
Wang Li	/ŋĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ(r)o/

(Zhengzhang): /*ŋo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ ngju ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ(r)o/
English	angle, corner
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	隅
Reading #	1/1
No.	15920
Phonetic component	禺
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ŋo/

Definitions

隅

corner; nook; remote place
edge; border

Compounds

一隅 (yīyú)
一隅三反
一隅之地
一隅之見 / 一隅之见
侷促一隅
向隅 (xiàngyú)
向隅獨泣 / 向隅独泣 (xiàngyúdúqì)
向隅而泣 (xiàngyú'érqì)
四隅
坊隅
城隅
字學舉隅 / 字学举隅
安於一隅 / 安于一隅
局促一隅
廉隅
斗絕一隅
方隅
東隅 / 东隅 (dōngyú)
海隅 (hǎiyú)
砥礪廉隅 / 砥砺廉隅
舉隅 / 举隅 (jǔyú)
苟安一隅
負隅頑抗 / 负隅顽抗 (fùyúwánkàng)
路隅
邁過隅頭 / 迈过隅头
隅中
隅反
隅坐
隅頭 / 隅头

Japanese

Kanji

隅

(Jōyō kanji)

corner
nook

Readings

Go-on: ぐ (gu)
Kan-on: ぐ (gu)
Kan’yō-on: ぐう (gū, Jōyō)
Kun: すみ (sumi, 隅, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
隅
すみ Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 隅 – see the following entry.

【すみ】	[noun] interior corner (e.g., of a room or board surface), nook [proper noun] a surname Alternative spelling 角

(This term, 隅, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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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