唹

唹 U+5539, 唹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5539 ← 唸 [U+5538] CJK Unified Ideographs 唺 → [U+553A]

Translingual

Han character

唹 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口卜尸卜 (RYSY), four-corner 6803₃, composition ⿰口於)

1. to smile at

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 194, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3774
• Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 645, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5539

Chinese

simp. and trad.		唹

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yū (yu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu¹

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• 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
    • Yale: yū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jo

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

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qa/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	唹
Reading #	1/1
No.	15814
Phonetic component	於
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	於
Old Chinese	/*qa/

Definitions

唹

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References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 80

Japanese

Kanji

唹

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Only used in 囎唹 (Soo, “Soo District, Kagoshima Prefecture”)

Readings

• Go-on: お (o)
• Kan-on: よ (yo)
• Kun: わらう (warau, 唹う)

Korean

Hanja

唹 • (eo) (hangeul 어, revised eo, McCune–Reischauer ŏ)

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