Zi:尤
尤 [yóu] 尤其 especially; (书) distinctive/prominent/outstanding (尤物 ‘rare thing/beauty’); blame/fault (效尤 ‘bad example’, 怨天尤人 ‘blame others’); (姓); (HDZ:) …
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►⁵yóu 尤 {E} adv. especially; particularly ◆b.f. ①fault; wrongdoing ►xiàoyóu 效尤 ②blame; indict ►yuàntiānyóurén 怨天尤人 ◆n. Surname
The Shuōwén Seal form of 尤() yóu ‘distinctive/prominent/outstanding’ (尤异) combines 乙() yǐ (as in 失), and 又() yòu ‘(strong right) hand’ (phonosemantic).
Compare: 失(𢩥) shī ‘lose; abandon; throw away’, in which 乙() yǐ something falling from the hand.
Compare: 辰(𨑃𠨷) chén ‘fall/crash from a cliff’ (地支), in which 乙() yǐ ‘sprout’ (bounce).
“[尤] Fault, evil; transgress; still more, furthermore; extraordinary; (find fault:) grudge ― a deformed 大 man? Cf. 尢 wāng” —Karlgren(AD).
Older graphs associated with 尤 are said to be old wr. of 肬(𪐤) yóu ‘wart/growth’ (on the hand), cf. 疣(𩑣).
Note: 尤其 yóuqí ‘especially’ is the main modern usage; cf. 尤其是, ‘especially’, 尤为 ‘especially’, 尤非 ‘especially not’.
Compare: 优/優() yōu ‘excellent’; 龙(龍) lóng ‘dragon’.
Compare: 无() wú ‘without’, 尢(𡯁) wāng ‘lame’.
HDZ: 尤 : yóu : 特异的, 突出的; 过失, 罪过 (cf. 肬); 怨恨, 责怪; 多; 亲近, 喜爱 (cf. 𣧗); (副词) 尤其 (格外), 更加; 猶/犹: 还, 尚且; (姓)
HDC: 尤異 : (封建) 对官吏的考语, 政绩优异、卓异; 珍异的物品
►references: Guǎngyùn:202.24; Karlgren:AD252,GSR996a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.551.14; Mathews:7511; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:298.03; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:006.1.02; EDOC:1
►components: 尢丶
►Cantonese: yauh\
Shuōwén: (尤)
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