# 歈

| 歈 | U+6B48, &#27464; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B48 |
| ← 歇 [U+6B47] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 歉 → [U+6B49] |

## Translingual
### Han character

歈 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人弓弓人 (ONNO), four-corner 8728$_0$, composition ⿰俞欠)
* songs

#### Derived characters

* 𢶖, 𢋅, 𤻍

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 570, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16143
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2146, character 7
* Unihan data for U+6B48

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | 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 |

### Etymology

Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan གླུ (glu), Mru [script needed] (klö, “song, melody”), Burmese ကျူး (kyu:, “to make melodious sounds”) (Löffler, 1966) & ကြိုး (krui:, “a genre of Burmese classical music”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yú (yu$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu$^4$
* 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$^4$
*** Yale: yùh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jy$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jyː²¹/
* Middle Chinese: yu, duw
Rime :
| Character | 歈 | 歈 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 羊朱切 | 度侯切 |
| Baxter | yu | duw |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jɨo/ | /dəu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jio/ | /dəu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /io/ | /dəu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /juə̆/ | /dəw/ |
| Li Rong | /io/ | /du/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭu/ | /dəu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /i̯u/ | /dʱə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yú | tóu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jyu$^4$ | tau$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤo/
    (Zhengzhang): /*l'oː/, /*lo/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 歈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yú |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ duw › |
| Old Chinese | /*lˁo/ |
| English | a kind of song |
| 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 | 歈 | 歈 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 15838 | 15867 |
| Phonetic component | 俞 | 俞 |
| Rime group | 侯 | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 頭 | 逾 |
| Old Chinese | /*l'oː/ | /*lo/ |

### Definitions

歈
* (literary) song
    From: The Verses of Chu, 4th century BCE – 2nd century CE
    Gōngtíng zhènjīng, fā jīchǔ xiē. Wúyú Cài'ōu, zòu Dàlǚ xiē. [Pinyin]
    The palaces and courts shook and quaked: they sounded out 'Rousing Chu', Wu songs and Cai lays; they played the Dalü.
* (literary) happy; joyful

### Compounds

* 吳歈／吴歈
* 擨歈 (yéyú)
* 歋歈 (yéyú)