揄 · yú
lift, raise; praise; hang; flap
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
lift, raise; praise; hang; flap
- Mandarin
- yú
- 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 揄 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
ユ ユウ トウ ツ チュウ チュ ヨウ ズ ひく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
- 유
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+63C4
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 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 揄
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- yu · 羊朱 反切 · #261
- Middle Chinese
- yuw · 以周 反切 · #990
- Middle Chinese
- duw · 度侯 反切 · #1026
- Middle Chinese
- duwX · 徒口 反切 · #1971
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 2294 · yu = 遇合三平虞以 · yuw = 流開三平尤以 · duw = 流開一平侯定 · duwX = 流開一上侯定
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
- yú
- kCantonese
- jyu4
- kDefinition
- lift, raise; praise; hang; flap
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 64.9
- kTGH
- 2013:5071
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yú,chōu,yóu,shū,yáo 31921.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yú 1408.120
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yú 446.200
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- yú粵jyu4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 羊朱 以周 度侯 徒口
- Kangxi positions
- 0440.270
- Guangyun positions
- 076.29 205.05 214.36 327.43
- GSR references
- 0125p
- Cangjie
- QOMN
- Four-corner
- 5802.1