# 隅

| 隅 | U+9685, &#38533; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9685 |
| ← 隄 [U+9684] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 隆 → [U+9686] |

## Translingual
### Han character

隅 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓中田中月 (NLWLB), four-corner 7622$_7$, composition ⿰阝禺)

#### Derived characters

* 𣿃, 𪽹

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1356, character 19
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41743
* Dae Jaweon: page 1860, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4145, character 1
* Unihan data for U+9685

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 齵 | *ŋoː, *ŋo |
| 偶 | *ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs |
| 耦 | *ŋoːʔ |
| 藕 | *ŋoːʔ |
| 髃 | *ŋoːʔ, *ŋo |
| 蕅 | *ŋoːʔ |
| 愚 | *ŋo |
| 隅 | *ŋo |
| 禺 | *ŋo, *ŋos |
| 湡 | *ŋo |
| 堣 | *ŋo |
| 嵎 | *ŋo |
| 鰅 | *ŋo, *ŋoŋ |
| 鍝 | *ŋo |
| 遇 | *ŋos |
| 寓 | *ŋos |
| 庽 | *ŋos |
| 媀 | *ŋos |
| 喁 | *ŋoŋ |
| 顒 | *ŋoŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋo) : semantic 𨸏 (“mound”) + phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yú (yu$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu$^4$ / jyu$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yú
*** Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yú
*** Wade–Giles: yü$^2$
*** Yale: yú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
*** Palladius: юй (juj)
*** Sinological IPA : /y³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jyu$^4$ / jyu$^6$
*** Yale: yùh / yuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jy$^4$ / jy$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yu$^4$ / yu$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /jyː²¹/, /jyː²²/
* Middle Chinese: ngju
Rime :
| Character | 隅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 虞俱切 |
| Baxter | ngju |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋɨo/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋio/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋio/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋuə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋio/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋĭu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ŋi̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yú |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jyu$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ(r)o/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋo/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 隅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yú |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ngju › |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋ(r)o/ |
| English | angle, corner |
| 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 | 隅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15920 |
| Phonetic component | 禺 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋo/ |

### Definitions

隅
* corner; nook; remote place
* edge; border

### Compounds

* 一隅 (yīyú)
* 一隅三反
* 一隅之地
* 一隅之見／一隅之见
* 侷促一隅
* 向隅 (xiàngyú)
* 向隅獨泣／向隅独泣 (xiàngyúdúqì)
* 向隅而泣 (xiàngyú'érqì)
* 四隅
* 坊隅
* 城隅
* 字學舉隅／字学举隅
* 安於一隅／安于一隅
* 局促一隅
* 廉隅
* 斗絕一隅
* 方隅
* 東隅／东隅 (dōngyú)
* 海隅 (hǎiyú)
* 砥礪廉隅／砥砺廉隅
* 舉隅／举隅 (jǔyú)
* 苟安一隅
* 負隅頑抗／负隅顽抗 (fùyúwánkàng)
* 路隅
* 邁過隅頭／迈过隅头
* 隅中
* 隅反
* 隅坐
* 隅頭／隅头

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* corner
* nook

#### Readings

* Go-on: ぐ (gu)
* Kan-on: ぐ (gu)
* Kan’yō-on: ぐう (gū, Jōyō)
* Kun: すみ (sumi, 隅, Jōyō)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 隅
* すみ Grade: S
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 隅 – see the following entry. :
| 【すみ】 | [noun] interior corner (e.g., of a room or board surface), nook [proper noun] a surname Alternative spelling 角 |
(This term, 隅, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

隅 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

隅: Hán Nôm readings: ngung, ngong
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