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禹 (Kangxi radical 114, 禸+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹中月戈 (HLBI), four-corner 2042₇, composition ⿻⿱丿口禸)

Yu the Great, legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty

偊, 㙖, 𡟥, 𡥶, 𢯺, 渪, 𨺲, 𨕘, 𣈭, 楀, 𪹋, 𤘐, 瑀, 䄔, 𦞇, 𥈋, 𰨰, 竬, 𦔊, 聥, 蝺, 踽, 𫒳, 𩘉, 𪑴, 齲(𮯌/龋)
𥝀, 鄅, 𬆪, 𩀌, 𩔔, 㙑, 㝢, 萭, 𰨚, 𥯔, 䨞, 𥝊, 属, 𢉠, 𫭎, 𰍞, 𬍿

Kangxi Dictionary: page 848, character 2
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24885
Dae Jaweon: page 1269, character 23
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 39, character 11
Unihan data for U+79B9

trad.		禹
simp. ^#		禹
alternative forms		𰁻

	Old Chinese
踽	kʷaʔ, kʰʷaʔ
萭	kʷaʔ, ɢʷaʔ
聥	kʷaʔ, ɢʷaʔ
楀	kʷaʔ, ɢʷaʔ
齲	*kʰʷaʔ
禹	*ɢʷaʔ
瑀	*ɢʷaʔ
鄅	*ɢʷaʔ

The Shuowen interprets the character as pictographic (象形) of an animal. The bronze-script character clearly shows the 虫 component.

insect: Compare Proto-Tibeto-Burman *was (“honey, bee”) (Benedict, 1972) or semantically closer Proto-Waic *wak "insect" (Schuessler, 2007), the latter from Proto-Palaungic *ʋaːk (“insect, worm”) (Sidwell, 2015).

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yǔ (yu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄩˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄩˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yǔ
  - Wade–Giles: yü³
  - Yale: yǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeu
  - Palladius: юй (juj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /y²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jyu⁵
  - Yale: yúh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: yu⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ú
  - Tâi-lô: ú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: uo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /u⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /u⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /u⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /u⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: hjuX

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	禹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ hju^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ/
English	insect; proper name
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	禹
Reading #	1/1
No.	15960
Phonetic component	禹
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	羽
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷaʔ/

禹

(Chinese mythology) Yu the Great (the legendary king associated with a flood myth and the foundation of the Xia dynasty)
^‡ insect

“禹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Southern Min

“Query for 禹”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

禹

(Hyōgai kanji)

Name of a Xia Dynasty emperor in ancient China: Emperor Yŭ, Yŭ the Great, or Dà Yŭ.

Go-on: う (u)
Kan-on: う (u)
Nanori: のぶ (nobu)

Kanji in this term
禹
う Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 禹 (MC hjuX).

IPA^(key): [ɯ̟]

禹(う) • (U)

Yu the Great, legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty in ancient China

禹 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
Yu the Great on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Xia Dynasty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

禹 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

ko:w: 우 (하나라) #우의 치수사업

禹라는 문자는 본래 도마뱀이나 악어, 용의 모습을 그린 상형문자로, 우의 기원은 황하에 살던 물의 신이라고 보기도 한다.^{[출처 필요]}

우 임금 禹(우): 김경일, 한자교실, 바다출판사, 1999.

더듬이와 꼬리가 긴 곤충 종류의 상형문. 아마도 토템 대상인 듯하다. 역사가 긴 부족.

禹: Hán Nôm readings: vũ

夏禹 Hạ Vũ

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Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999