xǔ
allow
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 午 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰˤaʔ | xuX | hǔ | 許許 (~ 滸滸 ~ 所所) sound of hewing wood (Mao 165.3) |
*qʰ(r)aʔ | xjoX | xǔ | place (n.) |
*qʰ(r)aʔ | xjoX | xǔ | allow |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 95.7232% of movies
186th most common character in movies
263rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A31 |
Shuowen | “許,聽也。从言,午聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

