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勇

勇

勇 U+52C7, 勇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52C7
← 勆
[U+52C6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 勈 →
[U+52C8]

Translingual

Han character

勇 (radical 19 力+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓月大尸 (NBKS), four-corner 17427, composition ⿱甬力)

  1. brave, courageous, fierce

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 147, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2360
  • Dae Jaweon: page 332, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 372, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+52C7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 勇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (用) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
通 *l̥ʰoːŋ
俑 *l̥ʰoːŋ, *loŋʔ
蓪 *l̥ʰoːŋ
桶 *l̥ʰoːŋʔ, *l'oːŋʔ
捅 *l̥ʰoːŋʔ
痛 *l̥ʰoːŋs
筩 *l'oːŋ
誦 *ljoŋs
傭 *l̥ʰoŋ, *loŋ
慵 *ɦljoŋ
鱅 *ɦljoŋ, *loŋ
滽 *loŋ
墉 *loŋ
鏞 *loŋ
鄘 *loŋ
槦 *loŋ
銿 *loŋ
甬 *loŋʔ
勇 *loŋʔ
涌 *loŋʔ
踊 *loŋʔ
蛹 *loŋʔ
恿 *loŋʔ
慂 *loŋʔ
悀 *loŋʔ
埇 *loŋʔ
踴 *loŋʔ
庸 *loŋ
用 *loŋs
佣 *loŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *loŋʔ) : phonetic 甬 ‎(OC *loŋʔ) + semantic 力 ‎(“strong”) – brave and strong.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 勇
Mandarin Beijing /yŋ²¹⁴/
Harbin /yŋ²¹³/
Tianjin /ʐuŋ¹³/
/yŋ¹³/
Jinan /yŋ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /iŋ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /yuŋ⁵³/
Xi'an /yŋ⁵³/
Xining /yə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /yŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ỹn⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /yŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ioŋ⁴²/
Chengdu /yoŋ⁵³/
Guiyang /ioŋ⁴²/
Kunming /ioŋ/
Nanjing /ioŋ²¹²/
Hefei /iŋ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /yəŋ⁵³/
Pingyao /yŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /ỹŋ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ioŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /ioŋ⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ʔioŋ⁵³/
Wenzhou /j̠yɔ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /yʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi /in³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ioŋ⁴¹/
Xiangtan /in⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /iuŋ²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /iuŋ³¹/
Taoyuan /ʒuŋ³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /joŋ²³/
Nanning /juŋ²⁴/
Hong Kong /juŋ¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iɔŋ⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /yŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /œyŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ioŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zoŋ²¹³/
Rime
Character 勇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 余隴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨoŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jioŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ioŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juawŋX/
Li
Rong		 /ioŋX/
Wang
Li		 /jĭwoŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯woŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǒng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 勇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǒng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yowngX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*loŋʔ/
English brave

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 勇
Reading # 1/1
No. 15449
Phonetic
component		 用
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 勇
Old
Chinese		 /*loŋʔ/

Definitions

勇

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

勇

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. courage

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

勇 ‎(hiragana いさむ, romaji Isamu)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

勇 • ‎(yong) (hangeul 용, revised yong, McCune-Reischauer yong, Yale yong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勇 (dũng, xõng, dõng, rụng)

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Compounds

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