yān, yū
to fade
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 於 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5157th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+83F8 |
Shuowen | “菸,鬱也。从艸,於聲。一曰也。” |
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