yuè

skip

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

夭 sound component

  Sound component

yāo

  

die young

Evolution

跃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
跃 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
跃 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
跃 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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yuè

skip, jump, frolic; to jump; to leap

Most common words with 跃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

活跃

active

跳跃

to jump

to jump

飞跃

to leap

踊跃

to leap

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 9.1783% of movies

1963rd most common character in movies

1516th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+8DC3


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