# 黝

| 黝 | U+9EDD, &#40669; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EDD |
| ← 黜 [U+9EDC] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 點 → [U+9EDE] |

## Translingual
### Han character

黝 (Kangxi radical 203, 黑+5, 17 strokes, cangjie input 田火女戈尸 (WFVIS), four-corner 6432$_7$, composition ⿰黑幼)
* black

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1519, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48082
* Dae Jaweon: page 2053, character 15
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4748, character 2
* Unihan data for U+9EDD

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 黝
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 黝 | *qliw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 坳 | *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws |
| 軪 | *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws |
| 眑 | *qrɯːw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 拗 | *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws |
| 鴢 | *qrɯːwʔ, *qɯːwʔ |
| 靿 | *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws |
| 狕 | *qrɯːwʔ |
| 袎 | *qrɯːws |
| 怮 | *qɯːw, *qrɯw, *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 窈 | *qiːwʔ |
| 苭 | *qɯːwʔ |
| 泑 | *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 呦 | *qrɯw |
| 蚴 | *qrɯwʔ |
| 幼 | *qrɯws |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yǒu (you$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jau$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yǒu
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yǒu
*** Wade–Giles: yu$^3$
*** Yale: yǒu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeou
*** Palladius: ю (ju)
*** Sinological IPA : /joʊ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jau$^2$
*** Yale: yáu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jau$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yeo$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɐu̯³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: 'jij, 'jiwX
Rime :
| Character | 黝 | 黝 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) | 幽 (138) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 於脂切 | 於糾切 |
| Baxter | 'jij | 'jiwX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔiɪ/ | /ʔiɪu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔi/ | /ʔɨu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔjɪ/ | /ʔieu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔi/ | /ʔjiw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔi/ | /ʔiĕu$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /i/ | /iəu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʔi/ | /ʔieu$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yī | yǒu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ji$^1$ | jau$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*qliw/, /*qrɯwʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 黝 | 黝 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 15620 | 15641 |
| Phonetic component | 幼 | 幼 |
| Rime group | 幽 | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 伊 | 黝 |
| Old Chinese | /*qliw/ | /*qrɯwʔ/ |
| Notes | 見莊子 | |

### Definitions

黝
* bluish-black, greenish-black

#### Compounds

* 黑黝
* 黑黝黝
* 黝堊 / 黝垩
* 黝暗
* 黝簾石 / 黝帘石 (yǒuliánshí)
* 黝糾 / 黝纠
* 黝銅礦 / 黝铜矿
* 黝黑 (yǒuhēi)
* 黝黝 (yǒuyǒu)
* 黝黯

### References

* “黝”, 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–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* bluish black, black
* dimly lit, dark, black

#### Readings

* Go-on: ゆう (yū)
* Kan-on: ゆう (yū)
* Kun: あおぐろ (aoguro, 黝)、あおぐろい (aoguroi, 黝い)、くらい (kurai, 黝い)

#### Compounds

* 黝然(ゆうぜん) (yūzen); or 黝然(ようぜん) (yōzen)
* 黝銅鉱(ゆうどうこう) (yūdōkō)
* 黝簾石(ゆうれんせき) (yūrenseki)

## Korean
### Hanja

黝 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)
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