yū
doctrinaire
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 于 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
yū
doctrinaire, abstruse, unrealistic; literal-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire; longwinded; circuitous
Most common words with 迂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
circuitous | ||
pedantic | ||
pedantic | ||
going around in circles | ||
circuitous |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʷ(r)a | 'ju | yū | astray; far |
*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a | hju | yū | bend, deflect; far away |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2959th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+8FC2 |
Shuowen | “迂，避也。从辵，于聲。” |
Sources
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