毓

See also: 育

毓	U+6BD3, 毓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BD3

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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)

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

Historical forms of the character 育
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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): 母 (“woman”) + 子 (“child”) — a woman giving birth to a child. Original form of 育 (OC *luɡ, “to give birth; to raise”). Later decorated and stylized as 每 + 㐬.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄩˋ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): juk¹ / juk⁶

(Taishan, Wiktionary): yuuk²
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): yu̍k

(Hailu, HRS): rhug^ˋ
Eastern Min (BUC): ngek
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): oeh⁷ / yoeh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): io̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): hiog⁴

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–Macau)
  - Jyutping: juk¹ / juk⁶
  - Yale: yūk / yuhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁷ / juk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yug¹ / yug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚⁵/, /jʊk̚²/

Note: juk6 - variant (rare).

- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: yuuk²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɵk̚⁵⁵/
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/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: rhug^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /ʒuk²/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ngek
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɛiʔek/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: oeh⁷
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: e̤̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /œʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: yoeh⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yøʔ⁴/
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/

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

(formal) to give birth; to procreate; to foster; to rear; to bring up
alt. forms: 育
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)

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

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