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野

yě

field, wilderness

Phonosemantic compound. 田 and 土 represent the meaning, and 予 represents the sound.

Components
田 meaning component

田  Meaning component

tián

  

field

土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

予 sound component

予  Sound component

yǔ, yú

  

give

Evolution

野 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
野 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
野 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

野  

yě

open country, field; wilderness; field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral

野 (壄) 

yě

erroneous variant of 野[yě]

野 (埜) 

yě

old variant of 野[yě]

Most common words with 野
Freq.
Word
Meaning

野

field

视野

horizon

野兽

beast

野蛮

barbarous

野生

wild

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

墅

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

嘢

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lAʔ

yaeX

yě

open country


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 35.0152% of movies

1019th most common character in movies

845th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+91CE

Shuowen

“野，郊外也。从里，予聲。，古文野，从里省，从林。”


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