尢

See also: ㄤ, 尤, and 尣

尢 U+5C22, 尢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C22 ← 尡 [U+5C21] CJK Unified Ideographs 尣 → [U+5C23]

尢 U+2F875, 尢 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F875 ← 当 [U+2F874] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 㞁 → [U+2F876]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

尢 (radical 43, 尢+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 大山 (KU) or X大山 (XKU), four-corner 4001₀, composition ⿸𠂇乚)

1. Kangxi radical #43, ⼪.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/尢

Descendants

• ㄤ (Zhuyin alphabet)

References

• KangXi: page 298, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7539
• Dae Jaweon: page 593, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 551, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5C22

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 尢
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Ancient script	Small seal script

Ideogram (指事), a man with bent legs (jumping or collapsing). Compare with 大, which derives from a man with straight legs, and in present form has slightly different strokes.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		尢
alternative forms		兀 𡯁 尣 𡯂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wāng (wang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wong¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: wāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄤ
    • Wade–Giles: wang1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uang
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wong¹
    • Yale: wōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ong
    • Tâi-lô: ong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɔŋ⁴⁴/

Definitions

尢

1. ^† lame; crippled

See also

• 尪 (wāng)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 尢 – see 尤 (“especially, particularly”). (This character, 尢, is a variant form of 尤.)

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Japanese

Kanji

尢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): おう (ō)
• Kun: あしなえ (ashinae), せむし (semushi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尢 (uông, vưu)

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