yù
to have children
Phonosemantic compound. 子 represents the meaning and ⺼ represents the sound. The 子 (child) component is upside-down, depicting a child being born head-first.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-quk | yuwk | yù | breed, produce |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 27.7110% of movies
1223rd most common character in movies
609th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+80B2 |
Shuowen | “育,養子使作善也。从,肉聲。《虞書》曰:‘教育子。’毓,育或从每。” |
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