yù
fame
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 與 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-q(r)a | yo | yù | praise (v.) |
*[ɢ](r)a-s | yoH | yù | joy |
*m-q(r)a-s | yoH | yù | praise, renown |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.7045% of movies
1714th most common character in movies
1676th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8B7D |
Shuowen | “譽，言不冉也。从言，與聲。” |
Sources
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