yù
give birth to
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 毓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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to rear | ||
Sun Yutang (1911-1985), historian and poet, studied in Tokyo, Oxford and Harvard |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-quk | yuwk | yù | 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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