yōu
long
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 攸 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
yōu
long, far, remote, distant; leisurely; long or drawn out; remote in time or space; to swing; pensive; worried
Most common words with 悠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
leisurely | ||
to rock | ||
long (tradition, history etc) | ||
leisurely | ||
to roll |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*liw | yuw | yōu | long-brooding |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.2103% of movies
2140th most common character in movies
2055th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+60A0 |
Shuowen | “悠，憂也。从心，攸聲。” |
Sources
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