yóu
to swim
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 斿 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[N-]ru | yuw | yóu | float, swim |
*[N-]ru | yuw | yóu | float, swim |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 62.0535% of movies
536th most common character in movies
695th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6E38 |
Shuowen | “游,旌旗之流也。从,汓聲。,古文游。” |
Sources
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