Character: 悠
Modern (Beijing) reading: yōu
Preclassic Old Chinese: lhu
Classic Old Chinese: lhu
Western Han Chinese: lhǝw
Eastern Han Chinese: zhǝw
Early Postclassic Chinese: zhiw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: zhǝw
Late Postclassic Chinese: zhǝw
Middle Chinese: jǝw
English meaning : be far away, distant, long-trailing; longing, persistent
Russian meaning[s]: 1) забота, печаль; опечаленный; быть расстроенным; 2) далекий, отдаленный; долгий; вечный; 3) рвануть; с силой тряхнуть
Shuowen gloss: 憂也.從心.攸聲.
Comments: One of the cases of irregular (dialectal) development of OC *lh- > MC j- (normally zjǝw would be expected). Modern dialects almost uniformly point to an aspirated (voiceless) initial, cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou, Fuzhou iu1, Meixian jiu1, Mand. yōu.
Radical: 61
Four-angle index: 8476
Karlgren code: 1077 c
Shijing occurrences: 1.2, 30.2, 33.3, 39.4_, 54.1_
