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

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• 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/

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• 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/
Bernard 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

1. corner; nook; remote place
2. 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)

1. corner
2. 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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