Chinese Character Wiki
竽

yú

ancient woodwind instrument

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

于 sound,iconic component

于  Sound Iconic component

yú

  

at

Depicts a musical instrument.

Evolution

竽 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
竽 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
竽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
竽 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
竽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

竽  

yú

ancient woodwind instrument; free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[shēng], used in ancient China

Most common words with 竽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

滥竽充数

token member of a group

竽

free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[shēng], used in ancient China

滥竽

token member of a group

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a

hju

yú

reed organ


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4935th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+7AFD

Shuowen

“竽，管三十六簧也。从竹，亏聲。”


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