犹 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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yóu

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 尤 represents the sound. Simplified form of 猶. Based on the original meaning "type of monkey". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

犭 Meaning component

quǎn

dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

尤 Sound component

yóu

especially

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

犹 (猶)

yóu

like, similar to, just like, as; as if; (just) like; just as; still; yet

Most common words with 犹

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	犹太人	Jew
	犹豫	to hesitate
	犹太	Jew
	犹如	similar to
	犹	as if

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

莸

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 20.2307% of movies

1248th most common character in movies

1230th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Traditional	猶
Unicode	U+72B9

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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