Character: 御
Modern (Beijing) reading: yù
Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋraks
Classic Old Chinese: ŋrah
Western Han Chinese: ŋrah
Eastern Han Chinese: ŋrah
Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋò
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋò
Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋò
Middle Chinese: ŋö̀
English meaning : to drive; to direct, manage; serve, present
Russian meaning[s]: 1) править лошадьми; кучер; 2) управлять (править) страной; 3) императорский, высочайший; 4) подносить, подавать; 5) давать отпор, сопротивляться, вм. 禦; 6) Юй (фамилия); [yà] древн. встречать
Shuowen gloss: 使馬也.從ぉ卸.古文御.從又馬. [77]
Comments: Also read *ŋrāks, MC ŋạ̀, Mand. yà 'to meet, welcome; provide against' (this reading makes probable the reconstruction of *-r- in *ŋrak-s > MC ŋö̀). Schüssler reconstructs both words with a final glottal stop (*-ʔh) - obviously as a result of relating them to 禦 *ŋ(hr)aʔ (q.v.). The rhymes, however, allow only to reconstruct *-s or *-ks; in the latter case both words could be related to 逆 *ŋrak 'go against; meet' (q.v.), and we could reconstruct the earliest OC forms as *ŋrak-s and *ŋrāk-s respectively. The root belongs to a very rich "word family", which includes forms with different affixes: suffixed *-k or *-ŋ (sometimes with a further suffixed *-s) or prefixed *r- (frequently turning into an infix). Cf. 迓 *ŋrāk-s 'to meet, receive', 逆 *ŋrak 'go to meet, oppose', 迎 *ŋraŋ 'to meet', 晤 *ŋāk-s 'to meet', 悟 *ŋāk-s 'to oppose', 迕 *ŋāk-s 'to go against', 禦 *ŋ(r)aʔ 'to withstand, hinder'.
Radical: 60
Four-angle index: 2082
Karlgren code: 0060 l-o
Go-on: go
Kan-on: giyo
Japanese reading: go;gyo;osameru;haberu;fusegu;o;mi
Vietnamese reading: ṇ'
Shijing occurrences: 12.1_, 35.6
