yóu
especially
Original meaning:
wart
Pictograph of a hand with a wart on it. The original meaning "wart" is now written as 疣. The original meaning later expanded to "strange, bizarre" and "outstanding, special".
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷə | hjuw | yóu | fault; even more |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 22.3771% of movies
1324th most common character in movies
1099th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+5C24 |
Shuowen | “尤,異也。从乙,又聲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.960
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