# 襦

| 襦 | U+8966, &#35174; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8966 |
| ← 襥 [U+8965] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 襧 → [U+8967] |

## Translingual
### Han character

襦 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 中一月月 (LMBB), four-corner 3122$_7$, composition ⿰衤需)
* short coat, jacket
* fine silk fab

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1126, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34678
* Dae Jaweon: page 1593, character 28
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3119, character 15
* Unihan data for U+8966

## Chinese

* Ru (upper garment) (English)

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 羺 | *noː |
| 獳 | *noː |
| 擩 | *noːs, *njoʔ, *njos, *njul, *njod |
| 譳 | *noːs |
| 懦 | *noːls, *njo |
| 糯 | *noːls |
| 需 | *sno |
| 繻 | *sno, *njo |
| 鑐 | *sno |
| 儒 | *njo |
| 濡 | *njo, *noːn |
| 襦 | *njo |
| 嚅 | *njo |
| 顬 | *njo |
| 鱬 | *njo |
| 嬬 | *njo |
| 臑 | *njo |
| 醹 | *njo, *njoʔ |
| 蠕 | *njo |
| 孺 | *njos |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): rú (ru$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: rú
*** Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: rú
*** Wade–Giles: ju$^2$
*** Yale: rú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ru
*** Palladius: жу (žu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʐu³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jyu$^4$
*** Yale: yùh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jy$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jyː²¹/
* Middle Chinese: nyu
Rime :
| Character | 襦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 日 (38) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 人朱切 |
| Baxter | nyu |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ȵɨo/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ȵio/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȵʑio/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ȵuə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /ȵio/ |
| Wang Li | /ȵʑĭu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ȵʑi̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | rú |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jyu$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*no/
    (Zhengzhang): /*njo/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 襦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | rú |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ nyu › |
| Old Chinese | /*no/ |
| English | jacket |
| 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 | 襦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13971 |
| Phonetic component | 需 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 儒 |
| Old Chinese | /*njo/ |

### Definitions

襦
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#### Compounds

* 綺襦紈褲 / 绮襦纨裤
* 繡襦記 / 绣襦记 (Xiùrújì)
* 羅襦 / 罗襦
* 腰襦
* 袾襦
* 複襦 / 复襦
* 襦裙 (rúqún)
* 襦褲 / 襦裤
* 襦褲歌 / 襦裤歌
* 雪中贈襦 / 雪中赠襦

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: にゅう (nyū)
* Kan-on: じゅ (ju)
* Kun: はだぎ (hadagi, 襦)

#### Compounds

* 襦袢(じゅばん) (juban): a type of undershirt worn under a kimono

## Korean
### Hanja

襦 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

襦: Hán Nôm readings: nhu
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