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憂

See also: 忧
憂 U+6182, 憂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6182
← 憁
[U+6181] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 憃 →
[U+6183]

Translingual

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Han character

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憂 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月心竹水 (MBPHE), four-corner 10247, composition ⿱㥑夂(GJKV) or ⿱㥑夊(HT))

Derived characters

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Descendants

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 401, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11170
  • Dae Jaweon: page 741, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2341, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+6182

Chinese

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trad. 憂/懮
simp. 忧*
alternative forms
懮
㥑
𢝊
𢟜
𢚧
懮
㥑
𢝊
𢟜
𢚧
𠮕
𨗫
𩕂
𠪍
 

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (憂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
憂 *qu
優 *qu
瀀 *qu
櫌 *qu
鄾 *qu
嚘 *qu
耰 *qu
獶 *qu
纋 *qu
懮 *quʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qu) : phonetic 㥑 () + semantic 夊.

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 憂
Mandarin Beijing /iou⁵⁵/
Harbin /iou⁴⁴/
Tianjin /iou²¹/
Jinan /iou²¹³/
Qingdao /iou²¹³/
Zhengzhou /iou²⁴/
Xi'an /iou²¹/
Xining /iɯ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /iəu⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /iou³¹/
Ürümqi /iɤu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /iəu⁵⁵/
Chengdu /iəu⁵⁵/
Guiyang /iəu⁵⁵/
Kunming /iəu⁴⁴/
Nanjing /iəɯ³¹/
Hefei /iɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /iəu¹¹/
Pingyao /iəu¹³/
Hohhot /iəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iɤ⁵³/
Suzhou /iɤ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔiø³³/
Wenzhou /j̠au³³/
Hui Shexian /iu³¹/
Tunxi /iu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /iəu³³/
Xiangtan /iəɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /iu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /iu¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʒiu¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jɐu⁵³/
Nanning /jɐu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jɐu⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /iu⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /iu⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /iu³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /iu²³/
Rime
Character 憂
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於求切
Baxter 'juw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔɨu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔiu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔuw/
Li
Rong 		/ʔiu/
Wang
Li 		/ĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jau1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 憂
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yōu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔjuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔ(r)u/
English grief, grieved

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 憂
Reading # 1/1
No. 15493
Phonetic
component 		憂
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		憂
Old
Chinese 		/*qu/

Definitions

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憂

  1. sad; grieved
  2. grief; melancholy

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References

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  • “憂”, 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), “忧”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 288.

Japanese

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Kanji

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憂

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. anxiety, worry
  2. mourning

Readings

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Compounds

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Compounds

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
憂
う
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Stem of classical adjective 憂し (ushi),[1][2] modern 憂い (ui, “gloomy, sad”).

Noun

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憂(う) • (u) 

  1. grief, pain, sorrow

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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憂 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

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憂: Hán Nôm readings: ưu, âu

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