喻

See also: 喩
喻 U+55BB, 喻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BB
← 喺
[U+55BA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喼 →
[U+55BC]

Translingual
Traditional 喻
Simplified 喻
Japanese 喩
Korean 喩

Han character

喻 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人一弓 (ROMN), four-corner 68021, composition ⿰口俞(GT))

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
  • Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 657, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+55BB

Chinese
trad. 喻
simp. # 喻
alternative forms 喩

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (俞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
褕 *low, *lo
偷 *l̥ʰoː
媮 *l̥ʰoː, *lo
鍮 *l̥ʰoː
緰 *l'oː, *slo
牏 *l'oː, *l'os, *lo
揄 *l'oː, *l'oːʔ, *lu, *lo
窬 *l'oː, *l'oːs, *lo
歈 *l'oː, *lo
俞 *l̥ʰus, *lo
隃 *slo, *hljo, *hljos, *lo
毹 *sro
輸 *hljo, *hljos
鄃 *hljo, *lo
腧 *hljos
逾 *lo
榆 *lo
愉 *lo
渝 *lo
瑜 *lo
蕍 *lo
覦 *lo, *los
蝓 *lo
踰 *lo
崳 *lo
羭 *lo
堬 *lo
瘉 *lo, *loʔ
萮 *lo
騟 *lo
愈 *loʔ
貐 *loʔ
喻 *los
諭 *los

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *los) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 俞 (OC *l̥ʰus, *lo).

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • ū/jī - literary;
  • lū/jū - vernacular.
Rime
Character 喻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 羊戍切
Baxter yuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jioH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ioH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 jyu6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 喻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lo-s/
English understand; metaphor

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 喻
Reading # 1/1
No. 15880
Phonetic
component		 俞
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 裕
Old
Chinese		 /*los/
Notes 同諭

Definitions

喻

  1. to inform; to notify; to explain
  2. to understand; to know
  3. to draw an analogy; to liken; to use a metaphor
  4. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

喻

  1. † Alternative form of 愉 (yú, “happy”)

Compounds
  • 呴喻
  • 喻家山
  • 嘔喻／呕喻
  • 新喻 (Xīnyú)

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

 喻

Kyūjitai

 喩

Kanji
喻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 喩)

  1. Extended shinjitai form of 喩

Readings

Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 喻 – see the following entry.
【喩】S
[kanji] Hyōgaiji kanji
[kanji] metaphor
(This term, 喻, is an extended shinjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

喻 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喻: Hán Việt readings: dụ[1][2][3][4], du[3]
喻: Nôm readings: dụ, dầu, dẫu, dỗ, nhủ, rủ, dẩu

  1. chữ Hán form of dụ (“allegory, metaphor, to explain”).

References
  1. Trần (2004).
  2. Trần (1999).
  3. Nguyễn (1974).
  4. Thiều Chửu (1942).
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