yú
pleasure
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 吴 represents the sound. Simplified form of 娛.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 娱
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to entertain | ||
to amuse | ||
to amuse oneself | ||
place of entertainment | ||
entertainment |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 10.7160% of movies
1988th most common character in movies
2493rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5A31 |
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