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Translingual
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Han character
由 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中田 (LW), four-corner 50600, composition ⿻日丨 or ⿻囗十)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 757, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21724
- Dae Jaweon: page 1167, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2524, character 2
- Unihan data for U+7531
Chinese
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| alternative forms | 繇 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 由 |
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| Western Zhou |
| Bronze inscriptions |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (由) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
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| 袖 | *ljɯwɢs |
| 岫 | *ljɯwɢs |
| 牰 | *ljɯwɢs, *lɯwɢs |
| 抽 | *l̥ʰɯw |
| 妯 | *l̥ʰɯw, *l'ɯwɢ |
| 紬 | *l'ɯw |
| 怞 | *l'ɯw |
| 鮋 | *l'ɯw, *ɦljɯw, *lɯw |
| 菗 | *rlɯw |
| 宙 | *l'ɯwɢs |
| 胄 | *l'ɯwɢs |
| 冑 | *l'ɯwɢs |
| 伷 | *l'ɯwɢs |
| 駎 | *l'ɯwɢs |
| 油 | *lɯw, *lɯwɢs |
| 由 | *lɯw |
| 蚰 | *lɯw |
| 秞 | *lɯw |
| 邮 | *lɯw |
| 釉 | *lɯwɢs |
| 柚 | *lɯwɢs, *l'ɯwɢ |
| 鼬 | *lɯwɢs |
| 苖 | *l'ɯːwɢ, *l̥ʰɯwɢ |
| 笛 | *l'ɯːwɢ |
| 迪 | *l'ɯːwɢ |
| 頔 | *l'ɯːwɢ |
| 軸 | *l'ɯwɢ |
| 舳 | *l'ɯwɢ |
Pictogram (象形) – a container or helmet.
If a helmet, may have been the same as or original character of 冑.
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to 遊?”)
Pronunciation
Definitions
由
- cause; reason
- from
- by; through; via
- (done) by
- because of; due to
- by means of
- to pass through
- 必由之路 ― bìyóuzhīlù ― the path that must be taken
- to follow; to let one determine
Compounds
Derived terms from 由
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Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 由 – see 甴. (This character, 由, is a variant form of 甴.) |
References
- “由”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
Readings
Vietnamese
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