祐
yòu
divine intervention
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Definitions
Historical pronunciation
| Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss | 
| *[ɢ]ʷəʔ | hjuwX | yòu | help, blessing | 
| *[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s | hjuwH | yòu | help, blessing | 
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4281st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
| Strokes | 9 | 
| Unicode | U+7950 | 
| Shuowen | “祐,助也。从示,右聲。” | 
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