yù
district
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 或 represents the sound.
Evolution

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 |
*[ɢ]ʷrək | hwik | yù | territory |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 18.7250% of movies
1499th most common character in movies
847th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+57DF |
Shuowen | “或,邦也。从囗,从戈以守一。一,地也。域,或又从土。” |
Sources
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