Chinese Character Wiki
偶

ǒu

pair, accidental

Original meaning: 

idol

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 禺 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

禺 sound component

禺  Sound component

yú, ǒu, yù

  

district

Evolution

偶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
偶 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
偶 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
偶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

偶  

ǒu

accidentally, coincidently; an idol; accidental; image; pair; mate

Most common words with 偶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

偶像

idol

偶

image

偶尔

occasionally

偶然

incidentally

玩偶

toy figurine

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋˤ(r)oʔ

nguwX

ǒu

pair, double


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 26.3815% of movies

1044th most common character in movies

1361st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5076

Shuowen

“偶，桐人也。从人，禺聲。”


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