幽

幽 (Kangxi radical 52, 幺+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 山女戈戈 (UVII), four-corner 2277₀, composition ⿻山𢆶)

• 㗀, 𢰠, 𭱒, 𪴉, 𦂣, 𧍘, 䫜, 𢇑, 𢇕, 𦇵, 𠋔, 𢉾

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 342, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9205
• Dae Jaweon: page 651, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1094, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5E7D

Historical forms of the character 幽
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qɯw) : phonetic 𢆶 () + semantic 山 (originally 火 in oracle bone).

Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Mru [script needed] (iu ~ ʔiu, “dark”) (Löffler, 1966); possibly also related to Tibetan གཡོག (g.yog, “to cover”) and གཡོགས (g.yogs, “lid”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Related to 黝 (yǒu), 窅 (yǎo), 杳 (yǎo), 穾 (yào), 窔 (yào).

Allofam is probably 窈窕 (OC *qiːwʔ l'eːwʔ) (ibid.).

幽

1. dim; dark
2. deep and remote
3. hidden; concealed
4. bottled up
5. quiet; tranquil
6. to confine; to imprison
7. netherworld; nether; nether-
8. a surname

• “幽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 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), “幽”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 288.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. dark
2. netherworld
3. hidden
4. confine, imprison

• Go-on: ゆう (yū, Jōyō)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū, Jōyō)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
• Kun: くらい (kurai, 幽い)、かすか (kasuka, 幽か)、かそけ (kasoke, 幽)

幽 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu)

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幽: Hán Nôm readings: u, ù

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