毆

See also: 殴

毆	U+6BC6, 毆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BC6

← 毅
[U+6BC5]

CJK Unified Ideographs

毇 →
[U+6BC7]

Translingual

Japanese	殴
Simplified	殴
Traditional	毆

Han character

毆 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸口竹弓水 (SRHNE), four-corner 7774₇, composition ⿰區殳)

Derived characters

𬥍

Descendants

殴

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 587, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16674
Dae Jaweon: page 979, character 18
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2165, character 4
Unihan data for U+6BC6

Chinese

trad.		毆
simp.		殴
alternative forms		歐／欧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 毆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
摳	kʰoː, kʰo
彄	*kʰoː
剾	kʰoː, qoː
謳	*qoː
歐	qoː, qoːʔ
區	qoː, kʰo
鷗	*qoː
甌	*qoː
漚	qoː, qoːs
瞘	*qoː
嘔	qoː, qoːʔ
櫙	*qoː
膒	*qoː
蓲	qoː, kʰu, qo, qos
醧	qoː, qas
鏂	*qoː
毆	*qoːʔ
塸	*qoːʔ
貙	*kʰl'o
樞	*kʰjo
驅	kʰo, kʰos
軀	*kʰo
嶇	*kʰo
鰸	*kʰo
敺	*kʰo
傴	*qoʔ
嫗	*qos
饇	*qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qoːʔ): phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo) + semantic 殳 (“action”).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ōu (ou¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄡ
Cantonese (Jyutping): au²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ió / o͘ / o / au

(Teochew, Peng'im): ao¹ / ao²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ōu
  - Zhuyin: ㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ou
  - Wade–Giles: ou¹
  - Yale: ōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ou
  - Palladius: оу (ou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: au²
  - Yale: áu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: au²
  - Guangdong Romanization: eo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐu̯³⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ió
  - Tâi-lô: ió
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ioir
  - IPA (Taipei): /io⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /io⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɤ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
  - Tâi-lô: oo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: of
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɔ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
  - Tâi-lô: o
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oy
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: au
  - Tâi-lô: au
  - Phofsit Daibuun: aw
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /au³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /au⁴⁴/

Note:

ió/o͘ - literary;
o/au - vernacular.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: ao¹ / ao²
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: au / áu
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /au³³/, /au⁵²/

Middle Chinese: 'uwX

Rime
Character	毆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏后切
Baxter	'uwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔəu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔəu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔəu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəw^X/
Li Rong	/ʔu^X/
Wang Li	/əu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	au²

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qoːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	毆
Reading #	1/1
No.	10597
Phonetic component	區
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	歐
Old Chinese	/*qoːʔ/

Definitions

毆

to beat; to fight with fists; to hit; to strike; to brawl
a surname

Descendants

→ English: Ou, Au, Aw

Compounds

互毆 / 互殴 (hù'ōu)
凶毆
反目互毆 / 反目互殴
攢毆 / 攒殴
毆傷 / 殴伤
毆打 / 殴打 (ōudǎ)
毆擊 / 殴击
毆斃 / 殴毙 (ōubì)
毆氣 / 殴气
毆罵 / 殴骂 (ōumà)
毆辱 / 殴辱
群毆 / 群殴 (qún'ōu)
鬥毆 / 斗殴 (dòu'ōu)

Pronunciation 2

Cantonese (Jyutping): au³

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: au³
  - Yale: au
  - Cantonese Pinyin: au³
  - Guangdong Romanization: eo³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐu̯³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Definitions

毆

(Cantonese) to beat; to hit (usually with something long)

Japanese

Shinjitai	殴
Kyūjitai	毆

Kanji

毆

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 殴)

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Readings

Go-on: う (u)
Kan-on: おう (ō)
Kun: なぐる (naguru, 毆る)、たたく (tataku, 毆く)

Korean

Hanja

毆 (eum 구 (gu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

毆: Hán Nôm readings: ẩu

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