窬

窬 U+7AAC, 窬 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 3022₁, composition ⿱穴俞 or ⿱穴兪)

1. 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

trad.		窬
simp. #		窬

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (俞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	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 (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Yale: yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴
    • Yale: yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/

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• 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/	/dəuH/
Pan Wuyun	/jio/	/dəu/	/dəuH/
Shao Rongfen	/io/	/dəu/	/dəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆/	/dəw/	/dəwH/
Li Rong	/io/	/du/	/duH/
Wang Li	/jĭu/	/dəu/	/dəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯u/	/dʱə̯u/	/dʱə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú	tóu	dòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4	tau4	dau6

• 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

1. (literary) hole in a wall

   • 不韋之盜，穿窬之雄乎？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     不韦之盗，穿窬之雄乎？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     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?

2. (literary) to bore; to dig out

   • 埏埴而為器，窬木而為舟，鑠鐵而為刃，鑄金而為鍾，因其可也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     埏埴而为器，窬木而为舟，铄铁而为刃，铸金而为钟，因其可也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Huainanzi, 2^nd 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.

3. (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

窬

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. small door or window
2. hole in the wall
3. to cut through a wall
4. 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)

1. wickets
2. penetrate