毓

See also: 育

毓 U+6BD3, 毓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BD3 ← 毒 [U+6BD2] CJK Unified Ideographs 比 → [U+6BD4]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 育

Han character

毓 (Kangxi radical 80, 毋+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人卜卜戈山 (OYYIU), four-corner 8051₃, composition ⿰每㐬)

1. give birth to
2. bring up, educate

Derived characters

• 𬉕, 𤪝, 𩱢, 𩱱, 𢑎

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 590, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16740
• Dae Jaweon: page 982, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2384, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6BD3

Chinese

trad.		毓
simp. #		毓
alternative forms		𣫺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
育	*luɡ
毓	*luɡ
棛	*luɡ
錥	*luɡ
焴	*luɡ
淯	*luɡ
蜟	*luɡ
堉	*luɡ
逳	*luɡ
蘛	*luɡ

Pictogram (象形) : 每 + 㐬 – a woman with a bamboo hairpin (to indicate that she is an adult) 每 while giving birth. The newborn baby is head down on the right 㐬. The top part of 㐬 is 子 inverted, an abstracted body with a head at the bottom; compare 充. The three lines (川) below head are amniotic fluid coming out.

A later alternative form is 育, in which the amniotic fluid disappears.

Alternately considered a Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *luɡ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 每 (“woman”) + phonetic 𠫓 (, “child”) + semantic 川 (“amniotic fluid”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk¹ / juk⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yu̍k
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): oeh⁷ / yeh⁷
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): io̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hiog⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: juk¹ / juk⁶
    • Yale: yūk / yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁷ / juk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug¹ / yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚⁵/, /jʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yu̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: iug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯uk̚⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yu̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯uk̚⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: oeh⁷
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /œʔ⁴/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: yeh⁷
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yøʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io̍k
    • Tâi-lô: io̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɔk̚⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hiog⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hiok
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiok̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: yuwk

Rime
Character	毓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	余六切
Baxter	yuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juwk̚/
Li Rong	/iuk̚/
Wang Li	/jĭuk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	juk6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-quk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*luɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	毓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ yuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*m-quk/
English	to produce
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	毓
Reading #	1/1
No.	15985
Phonetic component	育
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	育
Old Chinese	/*luɡ/
Notes	說文同育，甲金文即象母產子

Definitions

毓

1. (formal) to give birth; to procreate; to foster; to rear; to bring up

   alt. forms: 育

2. a surname

Compounds

• 毓婷 (yùtíng)
• 毓子孕孫／毓子孕孙
• 鍾靈毓秀／钟灵毓秀 (zhōnglíngyùxiù)

 

References

• “毓”, 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), “毓”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 293.

Japanese

Kanji

毓

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 育)

1. kyūjitai form of 育

Readings

• On (unclassified): いく (iku)
• Kun: そだてる (sodateru)

Korean

Hanja

毓 (eum 육 (yuk))

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Vietnamese

Han character

毓: Hán Nôm readings: dục

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References

• Nom Foundation