give birth to

Components
每 unknown component

  Unknown component

měi

  

every

㐬 unknown component

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liú

  

birth

Evolution

毓 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
毓 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
毓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
毓 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
毓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

give birth to; bring up, educate; (archaic) to give birth to a child; to rear

Most common words with 毓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to rear

孙毓棠

Sun Yutang (1911-1985), historian and poet, studied in Tokyo, Oxford and Harvard

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-quk

yuwk

to produce


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2986th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6BD3

Shuowen

“育,養子使作善也。从,肉聲。《虞書》曰:‘教育子。’毓,育或从每。”


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