友

友 U+53CB, 友
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53CB
← 及
[U+53CA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 双 →
[U+53CC]

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

友 (radical 29, 又+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 大水 (KE), four-corner 40047, composition ⿸𠂇又)

References

  • KangXi: page 165, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3119
  • Dae Jaweon: page 374, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 391, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+53CB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 友

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 友
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 (又) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絠 *kɯːʔ
醢 *qʰɯːʔ
珛 *qʰʷɯs
栯 *ɢʷɯʔ, *qʷɯ
有 *ɢʷɯʔ
友 *ɢʷɯʔ
右 *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs
宥 *ɢʷɯs
囿 *ɢʷɯs, *ɡʷɯ
侑 *ɢʷɯs
酭 *ɢʷɯs
姷 *ɢʷɯs
又 *ɢʷɯs
佑 *ɢʷɯs
祐 *ɢʷɯs
賄 *qʰʷɯːʔ
蛕 *qʰʷɯːʔ, *ɡʷɯː
烠 *ɡʷɯː
倄 *ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
鮪 *ɢʷɯʔ
洧 *ɢʷɯʔ
痏 *ɢʷɯʔ
郁 *qʷɯ
戫 *qʷɯ
哊 *ɡʷɯ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 又 (“hand”) + 又 (“hand”) – two hands meeting in friendship. Also phono-semantic (形聲) , from 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • jau5-2 - “guy; bloke”.
Rime
Character 友
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 云久切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦiuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuwX/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuX/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǒu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 友
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǒu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷəʔ/
English friend

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 友
Reading # 1/1
No. 15596
Phonetic
component		 又
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 有
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷɯʔ/

Definitions

友

  1. friend; companion
  2. fraternity
  3. (Cantonese, colloquial, slightly impolite) guy; bloke (Classifier: 條／条; 班)
    西裝友 / 西装友 [Cantonese]  ―  sai1 zong1 jau5-2 [Jyutping]  ―  guy in a suit
  4. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

友

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. friend

Readings

Noun

友 (hiragana とも, rōmaji tomo)

  1. friend; pal
    好敵手 (とも)の記 (き)憶 (おく)
    Tomo no Kioku
    Memory of a Frenemy

Proper noun

友 (hiragana ゆう, rōmaji Yū)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

友 • (u)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 우 (revised: u, McCune–Reischauer: u, Yale: wu)
    • Name (hangeul): 벗
  1. friend, companion

Vietnamese

Han character

友 (hữu)

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