予 · yǔ
I, me; to give
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
I, me; to give
- Mandarin
- yǔ
- Cantonese
- jyu4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 予 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ヨ チョ ジョ シャ ショ あずかる あたえる あらかじめ かねて たのしむ われKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 여
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4E88
- Radical
- 亅 · 6
- Strokes
- 4 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
4 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 予
Character connections
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History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- yo · 以諸 反切 · #231
- Middle Chinese
- yoX · 余吕 反切 · #1327
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1970 · yo = 遇開三平魚以 · yoX = 遇開三上魚以
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yǔ
- kCantonese
- jyu4
- kDefinition
- I, me; to give
- kTotalStrokes
- 4
- kRSUnicode
- 6.3
- kTGH
- 2013:184
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yǔ,yú,zhù 10052.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yú 1411.010 · yǔ 1413.140
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yú 445.180 · yǔ 447.130
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- yú粵jyu4 yǔ粵jyu5
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 以諸 余吕
- Kangxi positions
- 0085.160
- Guangyun positions
- 068.18 256.43
- GSR references
- 0083a
- Cangjie
- NINN
- Four-corner
- 1720.2