禹

禹 (Kangxi radical 114, 禸+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹中月戈 (HLBI), four-corner 2042₇)

1. Yu the Great, legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty

• 偊, 㙖, 𡟥, 𡥶, 𢯺, 渪, 𨺲, 𨕘, 𣈭, 楀, 𪹋, 𤘐, 瑀, 䄔, 𦞇, 𥈋, 𰨰, 竬, 𦔊, 聥, 蝺, 踽, 𫒳, 𩘉, 𪑴, 齲(𮯌/龋)
• 𥝀, 鄅, 𬆪, 𩀌, 𩔔, 㙑, 㝢, 萭, 𰨚, 𥯔, 䨞, 𥝊, 属, 𢉠, 𫭎, 𰍞, 𬍿

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 848, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24885
• Dae Jaweon: page 1269, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 39, character 11
• Unihan data for U+79B9

Historical forms of the character 禹
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

The Shuowen interprets the character as pictographic (象形) of an animal. The bronze-script character clearly shows the 虫 component.

insect

Compare Proto-Tibeto-Burman *was (“honey, bee”) (Benedict, 1972) or semantically closer Proto-Waic *wak "insect" (Schuessler, 2007), the latter from Proto-Palaungic *ʋaːk (“insect, worm”) (Sidwell, 2015).

禹

1. (Chinese mythology) Yu the Great (the legendary king associated with a flood myth and the foundation of the Xia dynasty)
2. ^‡ insect

• “禹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Southern Min

• “Query for 禹”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Name of a Xia Dynasty emperor in ancient China: Emperor Yŭ, Yŭ the Great, or Dà Yŭ.

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: う (u)
• Nanori: のぶ (nobu)

• 禹域(ういき) (uiki)
• 禹穴(うけつ) (uketsu)
• 禹行舜趨(うこうしゅんすう) (ukōshunsū)
• 禹貢(うこう) (ukō)
• 禹歩(うほ) (uho)
• 禹余糧(うよりょう) (uyoryō)

From Middle Chinese 禹 (MC hjuX).

• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝ]

禹(う) • (U) 

1. Yu the Great, legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty in ancient China

• 禹 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• Yu the Great on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Xia Dynasty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

禹 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

1. (성씨) a surname
2. (大禹) Yu the Great
3. (임금) king
4. (벌레) worm
5. (곡척) steel square

ko:w: 우 (하나라) #우의 치수사업

• 禹라는 문자는 본래 도마뱀이나 악어, 용의 모습을 그린 상형문자로, 우의 기원은 황하에 살던 물의 신이라고 보기도 한다.^{[출처 필요]}

우 임금 禹(우)

김경일, 한자교실, 바다출판사, 1999.

• 더듬이와 꼬리가 긴 곤충 종류의 상형문. 아마도 토템 대상인 듯하다. 역사가 긴 부족.

禹: Hán Nôm readings: vũ

• 夏禹 Hạ Vũ

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999