yòu
persuade
To use elegant 秀 words 言; 秀 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*luʔ | yuwX | yòu | lead; influence |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 19.1414% of movies
1600th most common character in movies
1707th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A98 |
Shuowen | “,相訹呼也。从厶,从羑。誘,或从言、秀。或如此。羑,古文。” |
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