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遊

yóu

travel

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 斿 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

斿 sound,meaning component

斿  Sound Meaning component

yóu

  

to move freely

Evolution

遊 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
遊 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
遊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
遊 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
遊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

遊  

yóu

wander, roam, travel

游 (遊) 

yóu

to walk; to tour; to roam; to travel

Most common words with 遊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

游戏

game

旅游

trip

游

to walk

游泳

swimming

游客

traveler

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[N-]ru

yuw

yóu

wander about


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 62.0535% of movies

536th most common character in movies

695th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

游

Unicode

U+904A

Shuowen

“游，旌旗之流也。从，汓聲。，古文游。”


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