yù
relaxed
Phonosemantic compound. 象 represents the meaning and 予 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 豫
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to hesitate | ||
without the slightest hesitation | ||
hesitancy | ||
happy | ||
Henan opera |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*laʔ-s | yoH | yù | go on tour |
*laʔ-s | yoH | yù | go on inspection tour |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 8.3934% of movies
2225th most common character in movies
1956th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+8C6B |
Shuowen | “豫,象之大者。賈侍中說:‘不害於物。’从象,予聲。,古文。” |
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