yú
offer sacrifice for rain
To sacrifice 亏 for rain 雨; 雨 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a | hju | yú | sacrifice for rain |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6612th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+96E9 |
Shuowen | “雩,夏祭樂于赤帝以祈甘雨也。从雨,于(亏)聲。,或从羽。雩,羽舞也。” |
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