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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 85 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水卜尸木 (EYSD), four-corner 38147)

References

  • KangXi: page 635, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17792
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1042, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1684, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6E38

Chinese

trad. /
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*lu
*lu
*lu
*lu

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lu) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *lju).

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. to swim
    /    yóu dé zuì yuǎn.   He swam the furthest.
    他們一起 [MSC, trad.]
    他们一起 [MSC, simp.]
    Tāmen yīqǐ yóu xiàng nà sōu chuán. [Pinyin]
    Together they swam to the ship.
  2. reach; part of a river
       shàngyóu   upper reach, upstream
       xiàyóu   lower reach, downstream
  3. A surname.
  4. Alternative form of (all senses).

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Float
  2. Swim

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(yu) (hangeul , revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(du)

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