yǔn
allow, permit
Phonosemantic compound. 㠯 represents the sound and 人 represents the meaning.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[l]u[r]ʔ | ywinX | yǔn | truly |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 29.6652% of movies
1280th most common character in movies
1443rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+5141 |
Shuowen | “允,信也。从儿,聲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.688
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