yú
basin
Phonosemantic compound. 皿 represents the meaning and 于 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 盂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
spittoon | ||
basin | ||
renal pelvis (medicine) | ||
Yu county in Yangquan, Shanxi | ||
alms bowl |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a | hju | yú | a formation of a hunting party |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4100th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+76C2 |
Shuowen | “盂，飯器也。从皿，亏聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
