Hanja Analyzer
喻

喻 — yu

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is not the standard Korean glyph form. The Korean form is 喩.

Korean reading
깨우칠 유
Romanization
yu
English
metaphor, analogy; example; like
Mandarin
yù
Japanese on'yomi
ユ
Japanese kun'yomi
さとす たとえる
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
12
Radical
口 (30, 9 residual)
Phonetic component
俞(유)
Unicode
U+55BB

Parts that make up 喻

  • 口 입 구 벌린 입말하고 먹는 일, 그리고 입 모양의 구멍
  • 兪 대답할/인월도(人月刂) 유 거꾸로 놓은 由 또는 옛 화살촉‘유’ 계열의 소리

How 喻 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 喻 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 口, 俞.

Characters sharing the phonetic 俞

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “유” in Korean.

Other hanja read “유”

Other hanja with radical 口

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