予 - Dong Chinese dictionary

yǔ, yú

give

Embellishment of the phonetically similar character 呂.

Components

lǚ

pitchpipe

予 and 呂 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.予 /*laʔ/, /*laʔ/
呂 /*[r]aʔ/

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 呂 than it was in ancient scripts.

㇚ Distinguishing component

shùgōu

vertical line with a hook

Evolution

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

予

yǔ

I, me; to give

予

yú

(archaic) I; me

Most common words with 予

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	给予	to accord
	赋予	to assign
	予以	to give
	赐予	to grant
	授予	to award

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (0 verified)

抒紓纾

Sound component in 10 characters (5 verified)

预預序野舒豫紓纾杼妤

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*laʔ	yo	yú	I, we
*laʔ	yoX	yǔ	give; together with

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 18.5007% of movies

1647th most common character in movies

925th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	4
Unicode	U+4E88
Shuowen	“予，推予也。象相予之形。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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