乳

乳 U+4E73, 乳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E73
← 乲
[U+4E72] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 乴 →
[U+4E74]

Translingual

Han character

乳 (radical 5, 乙+7, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月木山 (BDU), four-corner 22410, composition ⿰孚乚)

References
  • KangXi: page 84, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 190
  • Dae Jaweon: page 171, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 55, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+4E73

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 乳

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 乳
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script

j25390

Small seal script

s08669

Transcribed ancient scripts

L34366

L14508

L14509

L14510

L14511

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (乳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
啂 *noːʔ
乳 *njoʔ

Pictogram (象形) : A woman breastfeeding a child.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəw.

Pronunciation
Note:
  • nĕng/nèng - colloquial;
  • ṳ̄ - literary.
Rime
Character 乳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 而主切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵioX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵuə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ȵioX/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑi̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 rǔ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 乳
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 rǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nyuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*noʔ/
English milk; nipple

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 乳
Reading # 1/1
No. 10868
Phonetic
component		 乳
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 乳
Old
Chinese		 /*njoʔ/

Definitions

乳

  1. breast; nipples
  2. milk
  3. to suckle

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

 乳

Kyūjitai

 乳

Kanji
乳

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
乳
ちち
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

乳 (hiragana ちち, rōmaji chichi)

  1. (dated) milk
  2. breast (of a woman, of a female mammal)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
乳
ち
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

乳 (hiragana ち, rōmaji chi)

  1. (archaic) milk
  2. (archaic) breast

Derived terms
  • 乳 (ち)兄 (きょう)弟 (だい) (chikyōdai)
  • 乳 (ち)飲 (の)み子 (ご) (chinomigo)
  • 乳 (ち)房 (ぶさ) (chibusa)

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

乳 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

乳: Hán Việt readings: nhũ[1][2][3]
乳: Nôm readings: vú[1][3][4], nhỏ[1][2], nhủ[1][2], nhũ[2][4], nhả[2], nhỗ[3], nhú[5]

  1. Hán tự form of nhũ (“breast”).
  2. Nôm form of vú (“breast”).

Compounds

References
  1. Nguyễn (2014).
  2. Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. Trần (2004).
  4. Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).
  5. Hồ (1976).
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