疣

疣 U+75A3, 疣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75A3 ← 疢 [U+75A2] CJK Unified Ideographs 疤 → [U+75A4]

Translingual

Han character

疣 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大戈大山 (KIKU), four-corner 0011₄, composition ⿸疒尤)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 769, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22050
• Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2661, character 13
• Unihan data for U+75A3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		疣
alternative forms		肬 𪐤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
尤	*ɢʷɯ
疣	*ɢʷɯ
肬	*ɢʷɯ
沋	*ɢʷɯ
訧	*ɢʷɯ
忧	*ɢʷɯs
蚘	*ɢʷɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢʷɯ): semantic 疒 (“disease”) + phonetic 尤 (OC *ɢʷɯ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yóu (you²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴ / jau^4-2
• Eastern Min (BUC): ìu
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): iu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iû
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶yeu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yóu
    • Wade–Giles: yu²
    • Yale: yóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: you
    • Palladius: ю (ju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jau⁴ / jau^4-2
    • Yale: yàuh / yáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴ / jau^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴ / yeo^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/, /jɐu̯²¹⁻³⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ìu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ieu⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: iu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iû
    • Tâi-lô: iû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu²³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶yeu
    • MiniDict: yeu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhieu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦiɤ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: hjuw

Rime
Character	疣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羽求切
Baxter	hjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦuw/
Li Rong	/ɣiu/
Wang Li	/ɣĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jau4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	疣
Reading #	1/1
No.	15504
Phonetic component	尤
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	尤
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷɯ/
Notes	尤轉註字見釋名

Definitions

疣

1. wart; nodule; tumor; goiter; papule

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瘊子 (“wart”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		瘊子, 肉贅, 贅瘤, 贅疣, 疣
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	瘊子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	瘊子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	瘊兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	瘊子
	Xi'an	瘊子
	Xining	瘊子
	Xuzhou	瘊子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	瘊子
	Ürümqi	瘊子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	瘊子
	Liuzhou	瘊子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	瘊子
	Yangzhou	瘊子
Jin	Taiyuan	瘊子
	Xinzhou	瘊子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	老鼠趼
Southern Min	Xiamen	贅仔, 魚贅仔, 鼠尼, 老鼠奶
	Quanzhou	鼠尼
	Zhangzhou	贅仔, 魚贅仔
Wu	Shanghai	老繭奶

Compounds

• 濕疣 / 湿疣 (shīyóu)
• 疣子
• 疣目
• 疣豬 / 疣猪 (yóuzhū)
• 疣足
• 疣鱗魨 / 疣鳞鲀 (yóulíntún)
• 疣鼻天鵝 / 疣鼻天鹅 (yóubí tiān'é)
• 臀疣
• 贅疣 / 赘疣 (zhuìyóu)
• 跖疣 (zhíyóu)
• 附贅懸疣 / 附赘悬疣

References

• “疣”, 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), “疣”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 289.

Japanese

Kanji

疣

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: いぼ (ibo, 疣)、たり (tari, 疣)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
疣
いぼ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

A contraction of Old Japanese-derived 飯粒 (ihibo, modern reading ībo, literally “rice grain”), from the way that a wart or skin tag may look like a grain of rice.

Alternative forms

• 肬

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) いぼ [íꜜbò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ibo̞]

Noun

疣(いぼ) • (ibo) 

1. a small protrusion of the skin: a wart, a verruca, a skin tag
2. a wart-like protrusion on the surface of something

Derived terms

• 疣(いぼ)の木(き) (ibonoki): Ligustrum obtusifolium, a kind of privet tree
• 疣足(いぼあし) (iboashi): a parapodium
• 疣結(いぼい) (iboi): a kind of knot
• 疣石(いぼいし) (iboishi): “wart stone” → a stone believed to have the power to cure warts
• 疣猪(いぼいのしし) (iboinoshishi): a warthog
• 疣疣(いぼいぼ) (iboibo): a rash resembling many small warts; a surface covered in small protrusions
• 疣毟(いぼうじり) (iboujiri): “wart plucker” → alternate name for 蟷螂 (kamakiri), the praying mantis
• 疣落(いぼおとし) (ibootoshi): “wart dropper” → alternate name for 蝦蔓, 蘡薁 (ebizuru): Vitis heyneana subsp. ficifolia (syn. Vitis ficifolia), a kind of liana related to the grape
• 疣蛙(いぼがえる) (ibogaeru): a toad
• 疣金物(いぼかなもの) (ibo kanamono): “warty metal” → a metal plate into which numerous round-headed rivets have been driven, such as might be used in building construction or in shipbuilding
• 疣蟹(いぼがに) (ibogani): “warty crab” → a kind of king crab, a member of genus Paralithodes
• 疣細螺(いぼきさご) (ibokisago): a kind of marine snail in family Trochidae
• 疣草(いぼくさ) (ibokusa): “wart weed” → Murdannia keisak, a type of flowering plant related to the dayflower
• 疣仙人掌(いぼさぼてん) (ibo saboten): “wart cactus” → general name for cactus plants of genus Mammillaria
• 疣痔(いぼじ) (iboji): a hemorrhoid, blind piles
• 疣地蔵(いぼじぞう) (ibo jizō): “wart jizō” → a jizō statue believed to have the power to cure warts
• 疣占地(いぼしめじ) (ibo shimeji): “wart shimeji” → alternate name for 占地 (shimeji), the shimeji mushroom
• 疣症(いぼしょう) (iboshō): vercositas, verrucosis
• 疣状(いぼじょう) (ibojō): verrucous, verruciform
• 疣毟(いぼじり) (ibojiri): “wart plucker” → alternate name for 蟷螂 (kamakiri), the praying mantis
• 疣毟巻(いぼじりまき) (ibojirimaki): “wart-plucker curls” → a women's hairstyle popular among rural women until the early Shōwa period, so named for a resemblance to the praying mantis
• 疣背(いぼぜ) (iboze): “wartback” → alternate for 疣鯛 (ibodai): wart perch, Japanese butterfish
• 疣取(いぼた) (ibota): Ligustrum obtusifolium, a kind of privet tree
• 疣取(いぼた)の木(き) (ibotanoki): Ligustrum obtusifolium, a kind of privet tree
• 疣鯛(いぼだい) (ibodai): wart perch, Japanese butterfish
• 疣取(いぼとり) (ibotori): Ligustrum obtusifolium, a kind of privet tree
• 疣螺(いぼにし) (ibonishi), 疣辛螺(いぼにし) (ibonishi): Reishia clavigera (syn. Thais clavigera, a kind of predatory marine snail
• 疣虫(いぼむし) (ibomushi): “wart bug” → alternate name for 蟷螂 (kamakiri), the praying mantis
• 疣毟(いぼむしり) (ibomushiri): “wart plucker” → alternate name for 蟷螂 (kamakiri), the praying mantis
• 疣目(いぼめ) (ibome): a callus, a hardening of the skin due to repeated rubbing or pressure
• 疣海楊(いぼやぎ) (iboyagi): a kind of sea fan, a member of order Alcyonacea, formerly classed under order Gorgonacea
• 疣結(いぼゆい) (iboyui): a kind of knot
• 足底疣(そくていいぼ) (sokutei ibo): a plantar wart
• 副疣(ふくいぼ) (fukuibo): a secondary tubercle

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
疣
たり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Unknown. Possibly an extension of the nominalized continuative form tari of Old Japanese-derived verb 垂る (taru, “to hang down, to hang off of”, superseded by modern 垂れる tareru).

Appears with this reading in the 新選字鏡 (Shinsen Jikyō) Japanese dictionary of Chinese, compiled in 898-901.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta̠ɾʲi]

Noun

疣(たり) • (tari) 

1. (obsolete, rare) a small protrusion of the skin: a wart, a verruca, a skin tag

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
疣
ゆう Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 疣 (MC hjuw).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ː]

Affix

疣(ゆう) • (yū) ^{←いう (iu)?}

1. (rare, medicine, only in compounds) a small protrusion of the skin: a wart, a verruca, a skin tag

Derived terms

• 疣腫(ゆうしゅ) (yūshu): a sycoma, a skin tag
• 疣状(ゆうじょう) (yūjō): verrucous, verruciform
• 疣贅(ゆうぜい) (yūzei): a small protrusion of the skin, more specifically caused by HPV: a wart, a verruca, a skin tag
• 疣贅症(ゆうぜいしょう) (yūzeishō): keratiasis, keratosis
• 主疣(しゅゆう) (shuyū): primary tubercle
• 小疣(しょうゆう) (shōyū): a thymion
• 贅疣(ぜいゆう) (zeiyū): a bump or knot of useless flesh; something useless
• 足底疣贅(そくていゆうぜい) (sokutei yūzei): a plantar wart
• 軟疣(なんゆう) (nan'yū): a soft wart, a molluscum

Korean

Hanja

疣 • (yu) (hangeul 유, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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