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郁

郁

See also: 鬱

Translingual

Alternative forms

  • 鬱 (different character in Japan and Traditional Chinese)

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʷɯ) : phonetic 有 ‎(OC *ɢʷɯʔ) + semantic 邑.

Han character

郁 (radical 163 邑+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大月弓中 (KBNL) or X大月弓中 (XKBNL), four-corner 47227, composition ⿰有⻏)

References

  • KangXi: page 1270, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39371
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1769, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3766, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+90C1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 郁

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 郁
Mandarin Beijing /y⁵¹/
Harbin /y⁵³/
Tianjin /y⁵³/
Jinan /y²¹/
Qingdao /y⁴²/
Zhengzhou /y³¹²/
Xi'an /y⁴⁴/
Xining /y²¹³/
Yinchuan /y¹³/
Lanzhou /y¹³/
Ürümqi /y²¹³/
Wuhan /iəu²¹³/
Chengdu /yo³¹/
/y³¹/
Guiyang /iu²¹/
Kunming /iu³¹/
Nanjing /ʐuʔ⁵/
Hefei /yəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /yəʔ²/
Pingyao /yʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /yəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ioʔ⁵/
/yɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /ioʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔyəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /j̠ɤu²¹³/
Hui Shexian /iuʔ²¹/
Tunxi /y⁵/
Xiang Changsha /y²⁴/
Xiangtan /iəɯ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /iut̚¹/
Taoyuan /vut̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jok̚⁵/
Nanning /juk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jok̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hiɔk̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /øyʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /y²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hiok̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zok̚⁵/
Rime
Character 郁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 屋 (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔuwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiuk̚/
Wang
Li		 /ĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 郁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjuwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʷək/
English stately, elegant

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 郁
Reading # 1/1
No. 15615
Phonetic
component		 又
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 郁
Old
Chinese		 /*qʷɯ/

Definitions

郁

  1. adorned, elegant
  2. sweet smelling, rich in aroma

Compounds

  • 醇郁
  • 馥郁

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 郁 – see 鬱 (“depression”).
(This character, 郁, is the simplified form of 鬱.)
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 郁 – see 喐 (“Cantonese: to move”).
(This character, 郁, is a variant form of 喐.)

Japanese

Kanji

郁

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. culture, cultural progress
  2. fragrance, perfume

Readings

Proper noun

郁 ‎(hiragana かおる, romaji Kaoru)

  1. A unisex given name

Korean

Hanja

郁 • ‎(uk) (hangeul 욱, revised uk, McCune-Reischauer uk, Yale wuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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