# 麀

| 麀 | U+9E80, &#40576; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E80 |
| ← 鹿 [U+9E7F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 麁 → [U+9E81] |

## Translingual
### Han character

麀 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+2, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈心心 (IPP) or 難難難戈心 (XXXIP), four-corner 0021$_1$, composition ⿸鹿匕 or ⿸鹿𠤎)
* female deer
* doe

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1508, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47588
* Dae Jaweon: page 2037, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4727, character 4
* Unihan data for U+9E80

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麀 :
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 鏖 | *quː |
| 𤏶 | *quː |
| 麀 | *qɯw |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 鹿 (“deer”) + abbreviated 牝 (“female”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yōu (you$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jau$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): iŭ
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): iu$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iu
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yōu
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄡ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: you
*** Wade–Giles: yu$^1$
*** Yale: yōu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iou
*** Palladius: ю (ju)
*** Sinological IPA : /joʊ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jau$^1$
*** Yale: yāu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jau$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yeo$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɐu̯⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: iŭ
*** Sinological IPA : /ieu⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: iu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /iu⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iu
*** Tâi-lô: iu
*** Phofsit Daibuun: iw
*** IPA (Xiamen): /iu⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /iu³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /iu⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: 'juw
Rime :
| Character | 麀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 於求切 |
| Baxter | 'juw |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔɨu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔiu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔiəu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔuw/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔiu/ |
| Wang Li | /ĭəu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʔi̯ə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yōu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jau$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*qɯw/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 麀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15492 |
| Phonetic component | 麀 |
| Rime group | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 憂 |
| Old Chinese | /*qɯw/ |

### Definitions

麀 (literary)
* female deer; doe
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Shòu zhī suǒ tóng, yōulù yǔyǔ. [Pinyin]
    The haunts of the animals, where the does and stags lay numerous.
* (by extension) any female quadruped
    From: The Book of Rites, c. 4th – 2nd century BCE
    Yīngwǔ néng yán, bù lí fēiniǎo; xīngxīng néng yán, bù lí qínshòu. Jīn rén ér wú lǐ, suī néng yán, bù yì qínshòu zhī xīn hū? Fū wéi qínshòu wú lǐ, gù fùzǐ jùyōu. Shìgù shèngrén zuò wéi lǐ yǐ jiào rén. Shǐ rén yǐ yǒu lǐ zhī zì bié yú qínshòu. [Pinyin]
    The parrot can speak, but is no more than a bird. The gibbon can speak, but is no more than a beast. Now, if a person lacks propriety, even if they can speak, are they not also of a beastly mind? Only beasts lack propriety, which is why their sires and offspring share the same female. Therefore the sages devised propriety to teach people, and to make people know to distinguish themselves from the beasts by the possession of propriety.

#### Compounds

* 聚麀 (jùyōu)
* 麀聚
* 麀鹿 (yōulù)

### References

* “麀”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “麀”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 288.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ゆう (yū)、ゆ (yu)
* Kun: めじか (mejika)

## Korean
### Hanja

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