yù
surname Yu
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 有 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鬱.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʷək | 'juwk | yù | stately, elegant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.2949% of movies
1809th most common character in movies
1915th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+90C1 |
Shuowen | “郁,右扶風郁夷也。从邑,有聲。” |
Sources
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