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吁

xū, yù

interjection 'Alas!'

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 于 represents the sound. Simplified form of 籲.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

于 sound component

于  Sound component

yú

  

at

Evolution

吁 Seal script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
吁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
吁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
吁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

吁  

xū

interjection 'Alas!'; to sigh; sh; hush

吁  

yù

variant of 籲|吁[yù]

吁 (籲) 

yù

to implore

Most common words with 吁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

呼吁

an appeal

吁

sh

气喘吁吁

to pant

长吁短叹

long moan and short gasp (idiom); continually moaning and groaning in pain

气吁吁

to pant

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰ(r)a

xju

xū

pained


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6819% of movies

3055th most common character in movies

2138th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5401

Shuowen

“吁，驚也。从口，于聲。”


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