yù
prison
Picture of two fighting dogs (犭, 犬) facing each other and barking (言), depicting a legal dispute related to a crime.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 獄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
prison | ||
hell | ||
prison | ||
to break out of prison | ||
to go to jail |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ]rok | ngjowk | yù | lawsuit; prison |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 42.4636% of movies
717th most common character in movies
1597th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7344 |
Shuowen | “獄，确也。从，从言。二犬，所以守也。” |
Sources
李学勤《字源》p.884
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