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又

又

又 U+53C8, 又
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53C8
← 叇
[U+53C7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 叉 →
[U+53C9]
See also: ヌ, ﾇ, ㄡ, 攵, 文, and 𠬠

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

又 (radical 29 又+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 弓大 (NK), four-corner 17400)

  1. Kangxi radical #29, ⼜ ‎(“again”).

Descendants

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/又
  • 隻

References

  • KangXi: page 164, character 43
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3115
  • Dae Jaweon: page 374, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 390, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+53C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 又

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 又
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (又) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絠 *kɯːʔ
醢 *qʰɯːʔ
珛 *qʰʷɯs
栯 *ɢʷɯʔ, *qʷɯ
有 *ɢʷɯʔ
友 *ɢʷɯʔ
右 *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs
宥 *ɢʷɯs
囿 *ɢʷɯs, *ɡʷɯ
侑 *ɢʷɯs
酭 *ɢʷɯs
姷 *ɢʷɯs
又 *ɢʷɯs
佑 *ɢʷɯs
祐 *ɢʷɯs
賄 *qʰʷɯːʔ
蛕 *qʰʷɯːʔ, *ɡʷɯː
烠 *ɡʷɯː
倄 *ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
鮪 *ɢʷɯʔ
洧 *ɢʷɯʔ
痏 *ɢʷɯʔ
郁 *qʷɯ
戫 *qʷɯ
哊 *ɡʷɯ

Pictogram (象形) – a hand. Original form of 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs, “right (hand)”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 又
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 于救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦiuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuwH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 又
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yòu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjuwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s/
English also, in addition

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 又
Reading # 1/1
No. 15603
Phonetic
component		 又
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 宥
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷɯs/

Definitions

又

  1. again; once more
    • 又下雨了！  ―  Yòu xiàyǔ le!  ―  It's raining again!
    • 想了又想  ―  xiǎng le yòu xiǎng  ―  to think and think; to deeply think about
  2. also; in addition
  3. and; too
  4. (又……又……) both ... and ...
    • 我又餓又渴。 / 我又饿又渴。  ―  Wǒ yòu è yòu kě.  ―  I am hungry and thirsty.

See also

  • (again): 再 (zài)

Compounds

  • 又早
  • 又是
  • 又氣又急／又气又急
  • 又當別論／又当别论
  • 又要
  • 又說又笑／又说又笑
  • 又讀／又读
  • 又驚又喜／又惊又喜
  • 可又來／可又来
  • 日新又新
  • 欲言又止
  • 玄之又玄

Japanese

Kanji

又

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. again, as well
  2. also

Readings

Korean

Hanja

又 • ‎(u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

又 (hựu, lại)

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References

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