# 窬

| 窬 | U+7AAC, &#31404; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AAC |
| ← 窫 [U+7AAB] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 窭 → [U+7AAD] |

## Translingual
### Han character

窬 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十金人一弓 (JCOMN), four-corner 3022$_1$, composition ⿱穴俞 or ⿱穴兪)
* hole in a wall

#### Derived characters

* 𤀨

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 867, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25582
* Dae Jaweon: page 1295, character 23
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2735, character 11
* Unihan data for U+7AAC

## 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
#### hole in a wall

    Austroasiatic. Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *luh (“hole”), whence Vietnamese lỗ, Khmer ធ្លុះ (thluh), etc. (Schuessler, 2007)

### 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, duwH
Rime :
| Character | 窬 | 窬 | 窬 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) | 定 (7) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) | 侯 (137) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | I | I |
| Fanqie | 羊朱切 | 度侯切 | 田候切 |
| Baxter | yu | duw | duwH |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jɨo/ | /dəu/ | /dəu$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jio/ | /dəu/ | /dəu$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /io/ | /dəu/ | /dəu$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /juə̆/ | /dəw/ | /dəw$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /io/ | /du/ | /du$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭu/ | /dəu/ | /dəu$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /i̯u/ | /dʱə̯u/ | /dʱə̯u$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yú | tóu | dòu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jyu$^4$ | tau$^4$ | dau$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*l'oː/, /*l'oːs/, /*lo/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 窬 | 窬 | 窬 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 15837 | 15840 | 15864 |
| Phonetic component | 俞 | 俞 | 俞 |
| Rime group | 侯 | 侯 | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 頭 | | 逾 |
| Old Chinese | /*l'oː/ | /*l'oːs/ | /*lo/ |

### Definitions

窬
* (literary) hole in a wall
    From: Yang Xiong, Fa Yan (Exemplary Sayings), 9 CE
    Bùwéi zhī dào, chuān yú zhī xióng hū? [Pinyin]
    Was Lü Buwei's thievery not like that of a cunning burglar who breaks in through a hole in the wall?
* (literary) to bore; to dig out
    From: Huainanzi, 2nd century BCE
    Yán zhí ér wèi qì, yú mù ér wèi zhōu, shuò tiě ér wèi rèn, zhù jīn ér wèi zhōng, yīn qí kě yě. [Pinyin]
    One moistens clay to make vessels, digs out wood to make boats, smelts iron to make blades, cast metal to make bells by making use of their potentials.
* (alt. form 踰／逾) to climb over (a wall)

#### Compounds

* 圭窬
* 斗筲穿窬
* 穿窬
* 穿窬之盜／穿窬之盗
* 窬木
* 窺窬／窥窬
* 篳門圭窬／筚门圭窬

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* small door or window
* hole in the wall
* to cut through a wall
* dig or bore hole

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ゆ (yu)、とう (tō)、ず (zu)
* Kun: くぐりど (kugurido)

## Korean
### Hanja

窬 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)
* wickets
* penetrate