yǔ
stable
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-qʰ<r>aʔ | ngjoX | yǔ | prison; keep in enclosure |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6542nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5709 |
Shuowen | “圉,囹圄,所以拘罪人。从,从囗。一曰:圉,垂也。一曰:圉人,掌馬者。” |
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