yú
pleasure
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 吳 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 娛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to entertain | ||
to amuse | ||
to amuse oneself | ||
place of entertainment | ||
entertainment |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋʷ(r)a | ngju | yú | rejoice |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.7160% of movies
1988th most common character in movies
2493rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5A1B |
Shuowen | “娛，樂也。从女，吳聲。” |
Sources
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