yōu
superior
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 憂 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔ(r)u | 'juw | yōu | entertainer; liberal |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 36.7291% of movies
1042nd most common character in movies
774th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+512A |
Shuowen | “優，饒也。从人，憂聲。一曰倡也。” |
Sources
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