yù
bright light
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 昱
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
bright light | ||
Cheng Yu (141-220), advisor to General Cao Cao 曹操 during the Three Kingdoms era |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ɢʷrəp (dialect: *-əp > *-up > *-uk) | yuwk | yù | next day |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4596th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6631 |
Shuowen | “昱,明日也。从日,立聲。” |
Sources
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