玉

• 𤣩 (When used as a radical component)

玉 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一土戈 (MGI), four-corner 1010₃, composition ⿱一圡 or ⿷王丶)

1. Kangxi radical #96, ⽟.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №6

• Appendix:Chinese radical/玉
• 𠇤, 鿑, 𠰧, 𡊩, 𡛼, 𢫛, 𫞂, 𪸛, 砡, 𥩨, 𬗈, 𧉣, 䞝, 𧿷, 𨋔, 𣔣, 鈺(钰), 𩊇, 𩚽, 𩢤, 𪌞
• 𨚝, 𩿱(𬸃), 𡘇, 宝, 𪰑, 莹, 𬔵, 𧟪, 𦻒, 𩆜, 𮭳, 閠, 㓘, 匤, 国

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 726, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20821
• Dae Jaweon: page 1135, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1100, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7389

Historical forms of the character 玉
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)	Libian (compiled in Qing)	Kangxi Dictionary (compiled in Qing)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts	Clerical script	Ming typeface

The character's shape was historically very similar to 王; a dot was introduced to differentiate the two.

Pictogram (象形) : a picture of a cong (琮), a sort of ritual jade totem.

It is also interpreted as three pieces of jade strung together on a string.

STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k) (“stone”), which is also compared to 琭 (OC *roːɡ).

玉

1. jade (originally nephrite, now also including jadeite)

   一塊玉／一块玉 [Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ faai³ juk^6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  a piece of jade

   玉佩  ―  yùpèi  ―  jaden pendant

   玉石俱焚  ―  yùshíjùfén  ―  the good and the bad perish together (literally, “jade and stone incinerated together”)

   • 彼其之子，美如玉。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bǐ qí zhī zǐ, měi rú yù. [Pinyin]

     That officer,
     Is elegant as a gem.

2. pure; beautiful

   玉容  ―  yùróng  ―  beautiful face (of a woman)

   亭亭玉立  ―  tíngtíngyùlì  ―  slender and graceful (of a woman)

   錦衣玉食／锦衣玉食  ―  jǐnyīyùshí  ―  to live a luxurious life

3. (honorific) your

   玉照  ―  yùzhào  ―  your photograph

4. (Cantonese, borrowing) Alternative form of 肉
   1. Used in 玉冰燒.
5. a surname: Yu

• (jade): (Taiwanese Hokkien) 玉仔

• (jade): 瓊／琼 (qióng, “precious jade, esp. red jade”)

Others:

• → Indonesian: giok (via Min Nan)
• → Thai: หยก (yòk)

• “玉”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02553

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. gem, jewel
2. beauty, elegance
3. euphemistic term related to an Emperor of Japan
4. euphemistic term related to a partner
5. geisha

• Go-on: ごく (goku)
• Kan-on: ぎょく (gyoku, Jōyō)
• Kun: たま (tama, 玉, Jōyō)
• Nanori: おく (oku); きよ (kiyo); ひかる (hikaru)

From Old Japanese.

• 球 (especially preferred in baseball), 珠
• (bullet): 弾
• (gem): 璧

• (Tokyo) たま​ [tàmáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ma̠]

玉(たま) • (-tama) 

1. counter for ramen and udon for one person

   冷凍(れいとう)うどん1(ひと)玉(たま)

   reitō udon hito-tama

   one bowl of frozen udon

• 枚(まい) (mai): counter for zaru soba
• 杯(はい) (hai): counter for noodles in bowls
• 束(たば) (taba): counter for set of dried noodles

玉(たま) • (tama) 

1. any spherical or similarly-rounded object:
   1. a ball
   2. a orb
   3. a sphere
   4. a bead of an abacus
   5. lens

      Synonym: レンズ (renzu)

   6. a bullet
   7. an egg, especially of a chicken

      Synonyms: 鶏卵 (keiran); 卵, 玉子 (tamago)

2. a gem, jewel
3. an object of value
4. a female entertainer (geisha, prostitute, etc.)
5. (colloquial) Short for 金玉 (kintama): testicles

• → Korean: 다마 (dama)

玉(たま) • (tama-) 

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

玉(たま) • (Tama) 

1. a place name
2. a female given name

From Middle Chinese 玉 (MC ngjowk).

• (Tokyo) ぎょく [gyòkú] (Heiban – [0])[1][2] ​
• (Tokyo) ぎょ​く [gyóꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2] (a stock being traded)
• IPA^(key): [ɡʲo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

玉(ぎょく) • (gyoku) 

1. a gem, jewel
2. generic name for jadeite or nephrite
3. chicken eggs used as food, especially as a topping for sushi

   Synonym: 鶏卵 (keiran)

4. a stock being traded
5. Short for 建て玉 (tategyoku): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
6. a geisha

   Synonym: 芸者 (geisha)

7. Short for 玉代 (gyokudai): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• 玉(ぎょく)を吞(の)む (gyoku o nomu)

• (Tokyo) ぎょ​く [gyóꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɡʲo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

玉(ぎょく) • (gyoku) 

1. (shogi) king

• 入(にゅう)玉(ぎょく) (nyūgyoku)

玉 (eumhun 구슬 옥 (guseul ok))

1. Hanja form^? of 옥 (“jade”). See there for further compounds.

• 옥편(玉篇) (Okpyeon, “Yupian”)

玉: Hán Nôm readings: ngọc

1. gem; precious stone